The effects from the change in food prices on household welfare is a topical issue among policy makers and scholars in … Tanzania. However, relatively little is known about the quantitative effects of rising food prices on household welfare and … using household budget data from 2008/2009 and 2010/2011. We analyse the food Engel curves using a semi-parametric approach …

into poverty, moving out of poverty) as a function of household characteristics in the original survey round and shocks … experienced by the household, controlling for unobserved community characteristics. The probability of being chronically poor … (never poor) is negatively (positively) associated with years of schooling of the household head, the value of nonland assets …