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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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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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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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Food price changes and consumer welfare in Ghana in the 1990s

Ackah, Charles (contributor); Appleton, Simon (contributor) - 2007

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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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The Swedish consumer market for organic and conventional milk: a demand system analysis

Lindström, Hanna - 2021

Increasing the production of organic food is becoming an important environmental target for many governments, and consumer demand for organic food is pivotal in reaching these targets. This paper studies consumer demand for organic and conventional milk, using weekly scanner data from the...

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Consumption and nutrition : age - intake profiles for Czechoslovakia 1989-1992

Miquel, Ruth; Laisney, François - 2000

This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the relation between nutrient intake and age for Czechoslovak individuals, as a function of characteristics of both the individual and the household she lives in, on the basis of household purchases. Results show no significant difference between...

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The impact of food price volatility on consumer welfare in Cameroon

Kane, Gilles Quentin; Mabah Tene, Gwladys Laure; … - 2015

The objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers. Using … and (b) the welfare losses from food price volatility depend on the extent of any price hike. …

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Effects of the COVID-19 crisis on household food consumption and child nutrition in Mozambique

Squarcina, Margherita; Egger, Eva-Maria - 2022

This study investigates the short-term impacts of an aggregate socioeconomic shock on household food consumption and children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households are expected to adjust their food choices both in...

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Economic development, novelty consumption, and body weight : evidence from the East German transition to capitalism

Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare …

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