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Caloric Requirements and Food Consumption Patterns of the Poor
Eli, Shari - 2015
consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …
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Scarred Consumption
Malmendier, Ulrike - 2018
demand, and explain long-run effects of macroeconomic shocks …
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The Political Economy of U.S. Export Subsidies for Wheat
Gardner, Bruce L. - 2021
During 1985-93 the U.S. Government provided $4.9 billion in subsidies to targeted foreign buyers of U.S. wheat under its Export Enhancement Program (EEP). The subsidies averaged $31 per metric ton, or about 25 percent of the U.S. price. The EEP generates a small gain to U.S. farmers, compared to...
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Do Prices and Attributes Explain International Differences in Food Purchases?
Dubois, Pierre - 2013
UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate …
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Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?
Jensen, Robert T. - 2014
Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However, subsidizing goods on which households spend a high proportion of their budget can create large wealth effects. Consumers may then substitute towards foods with higher...
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Food Stamp Program and Consumption Choices
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2010
We study the effect of the Food Stamp Program (FSP) on consumption patterns in families headed by low-educated single mothers in the U.S. using the Consumer Expenditure Surveys for 1994-2004. Our analysis suggests that the food stamp caseload does not have any statistically significant...
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WIC Participation and Relative Quality of Household Food Purchases : Evidence from Foodaps
Fang, Di - 2018
We examine the effect of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on the quality of household food purchases using the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and propensity score matching. A healthy purchasing index (HPI) is...
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The Income Elasticity for Nutrition : Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya
Almås, Ingvild - 2019
at the village level: results are similar with vs. without an almost ideal demand system, and with a control group in …
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How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption
Atkin, David - 2019
's prescribed behaviors. We propose and estimate a modified demand system to quantify the identity changes that followed India …
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The First of the Month Effect : Consumer Behavior and Store Responses
Hastings, Justine S. - 2010
purchased by benefit households vary pro-cyclically with demand implying that benefit households could save money by delaying … their food purchases until later in the month. The price effects are small relative to demand changes and relative to … particularly in product categories and stores where benefit recipients represent a small fraction of overall demand. We conclude by …
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