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Scarred Consumption
Malmendier, Ulrike - 2018
demand, and explain long-run effects of macroeconomic shocks …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456973
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The Political Economy of U.S. Export Subsidies for Wheat
Gardner, Bruce L. - 1994
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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Geopolitical Shocks And Commodity Market Dynamics : New Evidence From The Russian-Ukraine Conflict
Aizenman, Joshua; Lindahl, Robert; Stenvall, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We investigate the event-based geopolitical shocks from the Russian invasion of Ukraine on selected agricultural and energy commodities using daily event-based structural vector autoregression (SVAR). We find that the geopolitical shock affects the markets of wheat (3%) and European natural gas...
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How Hungry is the Selfish Gene?
Case, Anne - 1999
We examine resource allocation in step-households, in the United States and South Africa, to test whether child investments vary according to economic and genetic bonds between parent and child. We used 18 years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by...
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School Food Policy Affects Everyone : Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program
Handbury, Jessie; Moshary, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
adoption, so that the program's welfare benefits propagate spatially. Using a stylized model of grocery demand, we estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660062
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The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases : Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision
Marcus, Michelle M.; Yewell, Katherine G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We find evidence that exposure 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...
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Demand Shocks and Supply Chain Resilience : An Agent Based Modelling Approach and Application to the Potato Supply Chain
Lu, Liang; Nguyen, Ruby; Rahman, Md Mamunur; Winfree, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The food supply chain has experienced major disruptions from both demand and supply sides during the Covid-19 pandemic … difficult task. With an attempt to understand impacts of demand on the food supply chain, we developed an agent-based model … demand shock will have different impacts on various stakeholders of the supply chain. Our contribution to the literature is …
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How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption
Atkin, David - 2019
the group's prescribed behaviors. We propose and estimate a modified demand system to quantify the identity changes that …
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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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