O objetivo deste estudo é analisar as mudanças na despesa alimentar das famílias brasileiras no período compreendido entre os anos de 1996 e 2003. Relacionou-se o consumo familiar ao preço e à despesa anual para os seguintes alimentos: aves e ovos, bebidas, carne bovina, carne suína,...

O trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar alguns elementos que nortearam as políticas públicas de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional nos anos desde 1970 até os dias atuais, que permitam discutir o papel de iniciativas de segurança alimentar e nutricional e os impactos no consumo o consumo de...

In this paper we evaluate how well-targeted and effective in reducing poverty the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) was in Brazil between 2004 and 2019. In order to do this, we use data from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) from 2004 to 2015, from the Continuous National Household Sample...

O propósito deste artigo é investigar os impactos do programa Bolsa Família sobre o trabalho infanto-juvenil entre as famílias beneficiárias do programa e residentes na área urbana. A metodologia eleita é o Pareamento pelo Escore de Propensão, e os dados são provenientes da Pesquisa...

In this paper we evaluate how well-targeted and effective in reducing poverty the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) was in Brazil between 2004 and 2019. In order to do this, we use data from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) from 2004 to 2015, from the Continuous National Household Sample...

The current debate on trade liberalization is accompanied by an increased concern about environmental and food safety issues leading to frictions of different country groups under the World Trade Organization (WTO). This discussion paper aims at shedding more light on some of the issues in the...

Retail pricing strategies incorporate promotions, sales, and rigidities. A number of models have been proposed in particular to explain the occurrence of sales. Focussing on the market for fresh foods the model by Varian and the loss leader argument seem to be intuitively best fitting to the...

The member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) have recently endorsed its Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health in an effort to combat the growing burden of non-communicable diseases. We assess the potential consumption impacts of these norms in the United States...

Genotoxins, both radiation and chemical, by their nature have great capacity for creating unintended third-party harms (externalities), which are difficult to control from a policy standpoint. The difficulties presented by genotoxins stem from 1) the long latency between exposure and the...