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Mexico's 'soda tax' has been predicted to reduce average weights by two to four pounds, based on extant estimates of an … the quality margin and correlated measurement errors. We use Mexican household budget survey data and city-level soda …
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"This paper explores an empirical methodology to assess the impacts of trade reforms on household behavior in … measurement error, the method overcomes the problem of the endogeneity of unit values. By endogeneizing household income, the … method to an expenditure and income survey for rural Mexico. It shows that the corrections suggested in this paper are …
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This paper explores an empirical methodology to assess the impacts of trade reforms on household behavior in developing … error, the method overcomes the problem of the endogeneity of unit values. By endogeneizing household income, the model … to an expenditure and income survey for rural Mexico. It shows that the corrections suggested in this paper are …
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This paper measures how households smooth changes in consumption when incomes are shifted by permanent or transitory shocks at country and regional level. I compute insurance capacity using the Spanish Continuous Family Expenditure Survey skipping the imputation methods used by the previous...
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level of household food insecurity in Mexico were identified. Households more likely to be food insecure include those with …Using a national household survey and a newly established food security scale, socio-demographic factors affecting the … younger, less-educated household heads, headed by single, widowed or divorced women, with disabled household members, with …
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The free market reforms adopted by Mexico in the wake of the debt crisis of the 1980s and in connection with the North … American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have jeopardized the physical and cultural survival of Mexico’s indigenous peoples …, increased migration to the United States, threatened biological diversity in Mexico, and imposed additional stress on the …
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This study investigates the relationship between social protection policies and agricultural output in Nigeria using data from Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Survey on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) conducted in August-October 2012 and February-April 2013 for post planting interview and...
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We review the relationship between trade and poverty in less developed countries, surveying both relevant economic theory and empirical evidence. We conclude that, while there certainly are circumstances under which greater trade openness can lead to poverty reduction, these circumstances do not...
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, with consumption expenditure data from household budget surveys. Specifically, this paper describes a methodology to … produce a concordance and transition matrix linking GTAP sectors to household survey classifications based on the … investigating research questions concerning the influence of household behaviour changes on trade, as well as trade developments and …
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