Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost … on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in … results imply a net reduction in healthy food store choice due to time lost. …

illnesses. A job loss, experienced by millions of Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic, is expected to negatively affect food … security of families. This research explores the effect of a recent job loss during the Covid-19 crisis on food sufficiency …. The findings suggest that a job loss in the family is associated with greater food insecurity, reduced likelihood that a …

Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of … persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with a focus on food manufacturing and grocery stores. We find that the … pandemic significantly reduced the probability of continued active employment for previous workers in both food manufacturing …

using data from India. We argue that a core-periphery economic structure is likely to increase the spread of infection … contagion needs to be heterogeneous across India, depending on the ex-ante economic structure of a region. …

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …

of India and finds that conditional on a range of individual, household, and regional characteristics, adult BMI …-risk populations in developing countries like India. …

We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether …