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Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …
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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 …
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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 geographic identifiers available in the restricted version of these data …
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Why do developing countries fail to specialize in products in which they appear to have a comparative advantage? We propose a model of agricultural trade with intermediation that explains how hold-up resulting from poor contracting environments can produce such an outcome. We use the model to...
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Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …
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analysis thus suggests that food price subsidies are likely to affect agriculture markets without impacting nutrition …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 …
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data from recipients of a large, unconditional cash transfer in Liberia and Malawi, we document sustained food security …
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Numerous recently uncovered cartels operated along the supply chain, with firms at one end facilitating collusion at the other - hub-and-spoke arrangements. These cartels are hard to rationalize because they induce double marginalization and higher costs. We examine Canada's alleged bread cartel...
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To what extent do national borders and national currencies impose costs that segment markets across countries? To answer this question we use a dataset with product level retail prices and wholesale costs for a large grocery chain with stores in the U.S. and Canada. We develop a model of pricing...
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We report results from a validation study of Nielsen Homescan data. We use data from a large grocery chain to match thousands of individual transactions that were recorded by both the retailer (at the store) and the Nielsen Homescan panelist (at home). First, we report how often shopping trips...
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