Using proprietary data from Alibaba, we examine how the 2015 Food Safety Law (FSL) affects e-commerce in China. The FSL … requires most food sellers on e-commerce platforms to obtain a valid, online license for retail food handling. Because the FSL … reputation and more online food sales before FSL tend to display their FSL license earlier on the platform, and buyers are more …

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 …

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …

Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …

We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … in poor households. Further, our analysis shows that households allocated some of the increase in income from food price …

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 … households to reduce their private risks of contracting a food borne pathogen. Based on a National Survey conducted in 2007 using …

In the United States, drug safety and efficacy are primarily regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and …