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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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Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …
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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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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 …
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The paper summarizes research on the heterogeneous experiences of actors in agriculture in Europe and the Americas between the First and Second World Wars. Following a period of increasing globalization of agricultural markets, the First World War sharply limited farming in the main combatant...
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Do governments systematically intervene in agricultural markets in response to climate shocks? If so, what are the aggregate and distributional consequences? We construct a global dataset of agricultural policies and extreme heat exposure by country and crop since 1980. We find that extreme heat...
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This paper analyzes the impact of exchange rate risk on global food supply chains. Although the theoretical literature … between exchange rate volatility and international trade flows. I contribute to the ongoing debate by investigating the … for a balanced panel of 159 countries for 2001 to 2017. I study the relationship for 781 agricultural and food products …
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We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In … food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and … increasingly valuable surplus as their real wages fall. In regions without crop agriculture, higher food prices increase both …
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We use the new dataset of trade flows across 269 European regions in 24 countries constructed in Santamaría et al. (2020) to systematically explore for the first time trade patterns within and across country borders. We focus on the differences between home trade, country trade and foreign...
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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 retail and food service workers with young children (58 percent working in …
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