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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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features love-of-variety preferences and encompasses a wide range of market conduct - including both quantity and price … competition - while allowing for firm entry and exit. We derive formulas for efficiency and incidence of both types of taxes that …
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Emeryville, CA's Fair Workweek Ordinance (FWO) aimed to reduce service workers' schedule unpredictability by requiring large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville...
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exhibit substantially less uniform pricing than offline retailers. Second, online price differentiation across competing …, pricing frequency, and local demo- graphics are utilized to explain price differentiation. Surprisingly, pricing technology … (across time) magnifies price differentiation (across locations). This evidence motivates a high-frequency study to unpack the …
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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...
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We measure workers' preferences for wages and non-wage amenities at America's largest employer, Walmart, using targeted survey experiments. We find that workers have an economically significant willingness to pay for "dignity at work". Consistent with the presence of monopsony power, we estimate...
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product markets. We find that changes in firms' marginal costs and households' price sensitivity are the primary drivers of …
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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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