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An Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization among Immigrants

East, Chloe; Friedson, Andrew - 2019

In this study, we document the effect of food stamp access on adult health care utilization. While the Food Stamp Program provides one of the largest safety nets in the United States today, the universal nature of the program across geographic areas and over time limits the potential for...

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In-kind transfers as insurance

Gadenne, Lucie; Norris, Samuel; Singhal, Monica; … - 2022

In-kind transfers can provide insurance beneﬁts when prices of consumption goods vary, as is common in developing countries. We develop a model demonstrating that in-kind transfers are welfare improving to beneﬁciaries relative to cash if the covariance between the marginal utility of income...

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Food insecurity and food assistance programmes across OECD countries : Overcoming evidence gaps

Giner, Céline - 2022

Food systems are expected to ensure food security and nutrition for a growing population. While food insecurity is more acute in developing countries, OECD countries are also affected. The current high-level of food prices could push more people into poverty and hunger. Governments have a role...

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The Indian Public Distribution System as Provider of Food Security : Evidence from Child Nutrition in Andhra Pradesh

Tarozzi, Alessandro - 2008

We study whether a sudden increase of the price of rice supplied by the Indian Public Distribution System in Andhra Pradesh, a large Indian state, had a negative impact on child nutrition. A few months after the price increase, a health survey started to record weight for a large sample of...

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Urban Resilience and Social Security Uptake: New Zealand Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022

This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...

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Urban resilience and social security uptake : New Zealand evidence from the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022

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Forecasting macroeconomic risk in real time: Great and Covid-19 recessions

De Santis, Roberto A.; Van der Veken, Wouter - 2020

become tighter. We use quantile regression and the skewed t-distribution and evaluate the forecasting properties of models …

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Forecasting macroeconomic risk in real time : great and Covid-19 recessions

De Santis, Roberto A.; Van der Veken, Wouter - 2020

become tighter. We use quantile regression and the skewed t-distribution and evaluate the forecasting properties of models …

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Forecasting private consumption : survey-based indicators vs. Google trends

Schmidt, Torsten; Vosen, Simeon - 2009

Index. The results show that in almost all conducted in-sample and out-of-sample forecasting experiments the Google … significant benefits to forecasters of private consumption. -- Google Trends ; private consumption ; forecasting ; Consumer …In this study we introduce a new indicator for private consumption based on search query time series provided by Google …

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Using internet data to account for special events in economic forecasting

Schmidt, Torsten; Vosen, Simeon - 2012

statistical forecasting models improves the forecasting performance in almost all cases. However, the challenge to identify … irregular events and to find the appropriate time series from Google Insights for search remains. -- Forecast adjustment … ; Google Trends ; private consumption …

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