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Extreme Weather Events and Consumer Food Responses

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates consumer food responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which affected a swath of the Southeastern U.S. in 2024. Using representative consumer survey data from six affected states, we analyze 10 distinct food responses classified into ex ante and ex post responses, and examine their associations with food insufficiency
Ahmad Zia Wahdat, Joseph Balagtas
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The Demographic Transition and the Emergence of Sustained Economic Growth [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and the demographic transition brought about a significant ...
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Promoting Healthier Drinking: Evidence From a Vignette Experiment on Contextual and Informational Drivers of Dealcoholized Wine Choices

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing demand for healthier beverages is driving innovation in the wine sector, with dealcoholized wine emerging as a promising alternative. However, little is known about the contextual conditions under which consumers would choose dealcoholized wine, particularly in countries with strong wine traditions. To fill this gap, this work examines
Giovanna Piracci, Giulia Maesano, Leonardo Casini, Maurizio Canavari, Marija Cerjak   +4 more
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The trade-off between fertility and education : evidence from before the demographic transition [PDF]

, 2009
The trade-off between child quantity and quality is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth.
Cinnirella, Francesco, Ludger Woessmann, Sascha Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Becker, Sascha, Sascha O. Becker, Francesco, Cinirella, Woessmann, Ludger, Becker, Sascha O.   +8 more
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Economic fluctuations and urban-rural differences in educational inequalities in mortality in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000–2015: a register-based study

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
We examined urban-rural differences in educational inequalities in mortality in the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Finland in the context of macroeconomic changes.
M. Leinsalu, A. Baburin, D. Jasilionis, J. Krumins, P. Martikainen, A. Stickley   +5 more
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Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
wiley   +1 more source

Decision making by pension fund trustees in the face of demographic and economic shocks: a vignette study

, 2012
How do pension fund trustees deal with demographic and economic shocks? We examine this issue by using a vignette study among pension fund trustees in the Netherlands. Trustees show asymmetric reactions to shocks in the level of reserves of pension funds.
Slager, A.M.H., van Dalen, H.P.; id_orcid, Henkens, C.J.I.M., Dalen van, H.P., Koedijk, C.G., Slager, A., van Dalen, H.P.   +6 more
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Do Universal Free School Meals Improve the Dietary Quality of Food‐At‐Home Purchases?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since 2014, the number of schools offering universal free meals to all enrolled children without requiring annual meal applications has increased meaningfully. Using USDA's Purchase to Plate Crosswalk, a difference‐in‐differences framework, and a nationwide consumer panel, the effect of universal‐free‐meal exposure on the diet quality of food ...
Xueying Ma, Andres Cuadros‐Meñaca, Michael R. Thomsen   +2 more
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Leslie matrix matching approach in labor market studies

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This article aims to identify the possibilities of combining existing approaches in ecology with the challenges of the labor market in the current era of digitalization and to identify what qualitative changes the labor market may undergo under the ...
Shogher Poghosyan, Meri Manucharyan, Gevorg Martirosyan, Liana Azatyan, Hovhannes Asatryan   +4 more
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Essays on Demographic Economics

, 2017
This thesis consists of three chapters. In Chapter 1, I explore the effects of educational assortative matching on household income inequality. Income differences across households are larger the more similar are the earnings potentials of breadwinners within the household.
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