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and market price. The signs of the estimated price elasticities of demand are consistent with the theory; however, for …
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importance of supply and demand shocks, which are interpreted as the fundamental driving forces of wheat price. To our knowledge … posterior median estimates for the price elasticity of supply and demand are mostly similar in their order of magnitude but … opposite in signs (0.19 for supply and -0.20 for demand); (ii) the price and the inventories respond to global wheat market …
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The share of home-cooked food in the diet of UK households declined from the 1980s. This was contemporaneous with a decline in the market price of ingredients for home cooking relative to ready-to-eat foods. We consider a simple model of food consumption and time use which captures the key...
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Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
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