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The impact of food price shocks on weight loss : evidence from the adult population of Tanzania

García-Germán, Sol; Romeo, Alessandro; Magrini, Emiliano - 2016

Undernourishment is still widespread in Tanzania, while obesity is becoming an issue of magnitude similar to undernutrition in the country. In this paper we examined the impact of an increase in maize prices on the nutritional status of Tanzania's adult population. We found that undernutrition...

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Snap and Food Consumption : A Collective Household Approach with Homescan Data

Lin, Xirong - 2022

I study how individual preferences and bargaining power within couples affects the impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Using longitudinal Homescan data, I find that wives have stronger preferences for SNAP-eligible food than husbands, and that household demand...

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Food Demand and Cash Transfers : A Collective Household Approach with Homescan Data

Lin, Xirong - 2022

I study how individual preferences and bargaining power within older couples affects the impact of cash transfers on food demand. Using longitudinal Homescan data, I find that wives have stronger preferences for food than husbands, and that household demand patterns for food are affected by...

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Poor vs non-poor households in Uruguay : welfare differences from food price changes

Echeverría, Lucía; Molina, José Alberto - 2021

changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We …-poor households only to changes in beverage prices. Additionally, changes in household economic welfare due to price increases vary … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor …

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Estimation and analysis of food demand patterns in vietnam

Vu, Linh H. - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 1/11, pp. 1-17

-price elasticities. Rice has mean expenditure elasticity of 0.36 and mean own-price elasticity of -0.80. Using the estimated elasticities …, the study finds that when rice prices increase by 20 percent, average household welfare rises by 1.3 percent, yet it is …

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The decline of home cooked food

Griffith, Rachel; Jin, Wenchao; Lechene, Valérie - 2021

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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Calorie elasticities with income dynamics : evidence from the literature

Zhou, De; Yu, Xiaohua - 2014

This paper proposes a finite mixture model (FMM) to model the behavioral transition of calorie consumption with an assumption that nutrition consumption is a mixture of two different behavioral stages: a poor stage and an affluent stage. Based on 387 calorie-income elasticities collected from 90...

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The effect of food prices and household income on the British diet

De Agostini, Paola - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of price variations on the diet composition in Britain. It describes the dynamics of food demand in relation to food prices over time using data from the British National Food Survey (NFS) covering the period 1975-2000. Demand elasticities with respect to price...

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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures : evidence from a randomized experiment

Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2016

This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children...

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Categorizing households into different food security states in Nigeria : the socio-economic and demographic determinants

Ogundari, Kolawole - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 5 (2017) 8, pp. 1-20

The literature reiterates the need to employ indicators that reflect the multidimensional nature of food security. In a quest to capture the multidimensional nature of food security, this study uses a novel ideal that harmonizes two food security indicators (food expenditure (FOODexp) and...

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