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Did Iraq Cheat the United Nations? Underpricing, Bribes, and the Oil for Food Program
Hsieh, Chang-Tai; Moretti, Enrico - 2021
From 1997 through early 2003, the United Nations Oil for Food Program allowed Iraq to export oil in exchange for … humanitarian supplies. We measure the extent to which this program was corrupted by Iraq's attempts to deliberately set the price … between the official selling price of Iraq's two crude oils (Basrah Light and Kirkuk) and the market price of several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247853
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The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade
Carter, Colin A.; Steinbach, Sandro - 2022
This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013298226
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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
, the descendants of societies that traditionally practiced plough agriculture, today have lower rates of female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124538
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The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases : Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision
Marcus, Michelle; Yewell, Katherine - 2023
We find access to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) had a meaningful impact on grocery spending for households with children, with monthly food purchases declining by about $11, or 5 percent. For households in zip codes with higher exposure, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357554
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Estimating the Associations between Snap and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
Administrative data are considered the “gold standard” when measuring program participation, but little evidence exists on the potential problems with administrative records or their implications for econometric estimates. We explore issues with administrative data using the FoodAPS, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924468
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Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916170
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Child Age and Gender Differences in Food Security in a Low-Income Inner-City Population
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2016
A long literature in economics studies differential allocations of resources to children within the family. In a study of approximately 1,600 very disadvantaged households with children in three cities in the U.S. from 1999 to 2005, significant differences in levels of food allocation, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976967
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The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa
McGuirk, Eoin - 2017
increasingly valuable surplus as their real wages fall. In regions without crop agriculture, higher food prices increase both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965423
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How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels
Sexton, Steven - 2015
Increased global demand for biofuels is placing increased pressure on agricultural systems at a time when traditional sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of food prices. This paper estimates the impact of global adoption of genetically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038332
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Food for Thought : Comparing Estimates of Food Availability in England and Wales, 1700-1914
Harris, Bernard - 2015
In The Changing Body (Cambridge University Press and NBER, 2011), the authors presented a series of estimates showing the number of calories available for human consumption in England and Wales at various points in time between 1700 and 1909/13. The current paper corrects an error in those...
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