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Antimicrobial use in animal agriculture contributes to antimicrobial resistance in humans, which imposes significant health and economic costs on society. These costs are negative externalities. We review the relevant literature and develop a model to quantify the external costs of antimicrobial...
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of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by family type, holding constant household size, age composition and … food. We cannot reject the hypothesis that the effect of replacing a biological child with a non- biological child is the … disaggregate food consumption more finely, we find that when a child's biological mother is the head or spouse of the head of …
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Governments seeking to provide food assistance have a choice between providing in-kind food directly to beneficiaries …, or providing vouchers that can be used to purchase food on the market. To understand the differences between these … that the change from in-kind food aid to vouchers led to substantial impacts on poverty through the way it changed how …
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This paper analyzes the impact of exchange rate risk on global food supply chains. Although the theoretical literature … for a balanced panel of 159 countries for 2001 to 2017. I study the relationship for 781 agricultural and food products … a primary source of international risk exposure for global food supply chains …
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This paper estimates the impact on consumer behavior of a firm's voluntary disclosure of information. Specifically, we study the impact of Starbucks' disclosure of calorie information on its menu boards in June 2013. Using data on over 250,000 consumers' visits to specific restaurant chains, we...
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A common objection to "sin taxes"--corrective taxes on goods that are thought to be overconsumed, such as cigarettes, alcohol, and sugary drinks--is that they often fall disproportionately on low-income consumers. This paper studies the interaction between corrective and redistributive motives...
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food imports from the U.S. with anthropometric and food expenditure data. Our findings suggest that exposure to food …. Pro-obesity effects are driven by areas more exposed to unhealthy food imports. We also find evidence in favour of a price …
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Evidence shows that the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is underutilized. WIC enrolls only sixty percent of eligible persons. Participants claim only a fraction of available benefits. Researchers suggest that people underutilize WIC because of the...
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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 used to measure nutritional quality of household food purchases. WIC … foods explain the improvement in quality of food purchases, not self-selection of more nutrition-conscious households into …
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We investigate how the coronavirus pandemic affected the demand for online food shopping services using data from the … largest agri-food e-commerce platform in Taiwan. We find that an additional confirmed case of COVID-19 increased sales by 5 … most, which benefited small farms over agribusinesses. Online food shopping was highly responsive to COVID-19 media …
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