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Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we measure the role of access in explaining why wealthier and more educated households purchase healthier foods. We find that spatial differences in access, though significant, are...
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, price, and quantity are reported with error. We focus on recording errors in prices, which are more prevalent, and show that … constructs the price data. We then show how the validation data can be used to correct the impact of recording errors on …
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price changes of the supermarket products they purchase. We discuss the implications of these findings for macroeconomic …
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- the latter frequently approaching 100%. Whereas in 1994, the generic price index fell from 100 to 80 in the 12 months … following initial generic entry and by 24 months to 65, in 2009 the comparable generic price indexes are 68 and 27, respectively … Medicare Part D, the average price per prescription declined by 21.3% from 2006 to 2009, rather than increasing by 25-28% as …
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This paper develops a dynamic model of retail competition and uses it to study the impact of the expansion of a new …
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We investigate the impact of access to convenience stores and competition between convenience store chains on medical … levels of inter-brand competition reduce the use and cost of outpatient medical services and prescription drugs, healthcare … utilization is more responsive to changes in competition. Since convenience stores in Taiwan are typically the healthier option …
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This paper reports estimates of consumers' preferences for plans to improve food safety. The plans are distinguished based on whether they address the ex ante risk of food borne illness or the ex post effects of the illness. They are also distinguished based on whether they focus on a public...
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The largest economic cost of the COVID-19 pandemic could arise from changes in behavior long after the immediate health crisis is resolved. A potential source of such a long-lived change is scarring of beliefs, a persistent change in the perceived probability of an extreme, negative shock in the...
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and estimate the impact on the Consumer Price Index (CPI). I find that the Covid inflation rate is higher than the …
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that the courts were right in finding that some of Microsoft's actions harmed competition, the constraints placed on its …
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