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Comparing the safety of prescription drugs over time is difficult due to the paucity of reliable quantitative measures of drug safety. Both the academic literature and popular press have focused on drug withdrawals as a proxy for breakdowns in the drug safety system. This metric, however, is...
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primary sectors like agriculture or mining than in manufacturing sectors …
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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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-in-differences method. We compare the change before and after the implementation of NLEA in body weight among those who use labels when food …
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We study the effects of receipts that include personalized ordering suggestions designed to reduce fat and calorie consumption on purchasing behavior at a restaurant chain. We find that customers, in the aggregate, made most of the item substitutions that were encouraged by the messages, such as...
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Using proprietary data from Alibaba, we examine how the 2015 Food Safety Law (FSL) affects e-commerce in China. The FSL … requires most food sellers on e-commerce platforms to obtain a valid, online license for retail food handling. Because the FSL … reputation and more online food sales before FSL tend to display their FSL license earlier on the platform, and buyers are more …
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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 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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Food manufacturing and processing is an important link between agricultural producers and consumers in the agricultural … supply chain. The food manufacturing sector in the United States is both increasingly mechanized and increasingly … concentrated. Consequently, labor risks in food manufacturing have changed over time with changes in industry structure. Labor …
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is surpassing human performance in a growing number of domains. However, there is limited evidence of its economic effects. Using data from a digital platform, we study a key application of AI: machine translation. We find that the introduction of a machine...
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