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Food security in Kenya: Insights from a household food demand model

Korir, Lilian; Rizov, Marian; Ruto, Eric - In: Economic Modelling 92 (2020), pp. 99-108

negative and smaller in magnitude. A complementary welfare analysis shows high compensated variations in the long run, ranging …

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Food security and wheat prices in Afghanistan: A distribution-sensitive analysis of household-level impacts

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012

We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...

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The Effect of Food Price Changes on Child Labor: Evidence from Uganda

Frempong, Raymond B.; Stadelmann, David - 2017

A majority of people in developing countries spend about 60 percent of their income on food, even though most of them are farmers. Hence, a change in food prices affects both their revenue as well as expenditure, and thereby their labor market decisions. Using the Uganda National Panel Survey...

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Who gains from trade protection in Ghana: A household-level analysis?

Ackah, Charles; Morrissey, Oliver; Appleton, Simon - 2007

household income in Ghana. Tariff measures at the two-digit ISIC level are matched to Ghanaian household survey data for 1991 …. Specifically, we allow the relationship between welfare and trade policy to differ for households with different levels of … disproportionately greater for low skilled labour households, suggesting an erosion of welfare of unskilled labour households would …

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Fragmenting food markets: Some New Zealand evidence from a two-stage budget model

Khaled, Mohammed; McWha, Vhari; Lattimore, Ralph - 2004

Very little is known about the basic income and price responsiveness of New Zealand food markets. As far as we can determine, there has never been a complete disaggregated food demand model estimated for New Zealand. In a famous article, Court (1967) estimated a demand system for three red...

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Why don't households invest in latrines: Health, prestige, or safety?

Gross, Elena; Günther, Isabel - 2014

70 percent of the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa does not use adequate sanitation facilities. In rural Benin, as much as 95 percent of the population has no access to improved sanitation. This paper explores why households remain without latrines analyzing a representative sample of 2000...

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Social benefits of clean energy: Evidence from Bangladesh

Uddin, Mohammed Gazi Salah; Abdullah-Al-Baki, Chowdhury; … - 2023

worldwide. This study tries to measure the welfare effects of solar adoption using the three rounds of the Bangladesh Integrated … Household Surveys. We applied both ordinary least squares and propensity score matching techniques to estimate the welfare …

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Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition: The Mozambican experience 2008/09

Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Østerdal, Lars Peter - 2012

A propitiously timed household survey carried out in Mozambique over the period 2008-09 permits us to evaluate the short-to-medium run relationship between sudden shocks to food prices and child nutrition status. We link local price inflation with child malnutrition status. We find that the...

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Conflict, food price shocks, and food insecurity: The experience of Afghan households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012

Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...

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The impact of food price shocks on consumption and nutritional patterns of urban Mexican households

Torres, Miriam Juárez - 2015

During the 2000s, recurrent food price shocks due to volatility in international markets and extreme weather events affected consumption and nutritional patterns of Mexican urban households. This research quantifies the impacts of food price shocks on the purchase of nutrients and on the weight...

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