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Conflict, food price shocks, and food insecurity : the experience of Afghan households
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012
Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...
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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature
Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023
We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423470
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Volatility and growth : governments are key
Jetter, Michael - 2013
paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228789
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The volatility of survey measures of culture and its consequences
Zanella, Giulio; Bellani, Marina M. - 2019
Common measures of cultural attitudes, such as those constructed from the World Values Survey, are characterized by … substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130251
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Food prices and body fatness among youths
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2013
In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) measures derived from bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), among youths ages 12 through 18. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763252
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The first world war and working-class food consumption in Britain
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2010
eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner …'s recommended intakes. -- First World War ; Britain ; food controls ; food consumption ; nutrition …
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Rising food prices and household welfare : evidence from Brazil in 2008
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, … - 2011
Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys to estimate the welfare consequences of these food price...
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Poverty, inequality, and growth in urban China, 1986 - 2000
Meng, Xin (contributor); Gregory, Robert G. (contributor);  … - 2005
Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality, reduction in social welfare provision, deregulation of grain prices, and increases in income uncertainty in the 1990s have increased urban poverty. Using a large repeated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002544046
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Is the allocation of time gender sensitive to food price changes? : an investigation of hours of work in Uganda
Campus, Daniela; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2016
Dramatic spikes in food prices, like those observed over the last years, represent a real threat to food security in developing countries with severe consequences for many aspects of human life. Price instability can also affect the intra-household allocation of time, thus changing the labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581673
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Wages, minimum wages, and price pass-through: the case of McDonald's restaurants
Ashenfelter, Orley; Jurajda, Štěpán - 2021
We use price and wage data from McDonald's restaurants to provide evidence on wage increases, labor-saving technology introduction, and price pass-through by a large low-wage employer facing a flurry of minimum wage hikes from 2016-2020. We estimate an elasticity of hourly wage rates with...
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