Welfare consequences of food prices increases: Evidence from rural Mexico
By O. Attanasio, V. D. Maro, Valérie Lechene, David C. Phillips. 2013
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This paper presents an analysis of the welfare consequences of recent increases in food prices in Mexico using micro-level data. We estimate a QUAIDS model of demand for food, using data collected to evaluate the conditional cash transfer program Oportunidades. We show how the poor have been affected by the recent increases and changes in relative prices of foods. We also show how a conditional cash transfer program provides a means of alleviating the problem of increasing staple prices, and simulate the impact of such a policy on household welfare and consumer demand. We contrast this policy with alternative policy responses, such as price subsidies, which distort relative prices and are less well-targeted.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Soil Science
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In Economics and Econometrics
- O. Attanasio
- Valérie Lechene
- Enrique Seira
- Pierre Bachas
- Paul J. Gertler
- S. Higgins
- Feng Liang
- Katja Kaufmann
In Gender Studies
- O. Attanasio
- Valérie Lechene
- Paul J. Gertler
- Norbert R. Schady
- M. Ravallion
- David Freedman
- José Rosero
- Rossella Calvi
In Soil Science
Citations in the corpus
- Banking on Trust: How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More (2017, methodology): “The consumption, income, and assets modules of Oportunidades' analogous survey for rural areas have been used by Angelucci and De Giorgi (2009), Gertler, Martinez, and Rubio-Codina (2012), Attanasio et al. (2013), and de Janvry et al. (2015), while these modules from the ENCELURB have been used by B”
- Efficient Responses to Targeted Cash Transfers (2013, background): “Interested readers are referred to Attanasio et al. ð2009, 2013Þ for in-depth analysis of income and price responses and welfare analysis in this context.”
- Food Prices, Wages, and Welfare in Rural India (2013, unknown): “Another strand of the literature incorporates secondorder (substitution) effects of price increases on the consumption side based on demand-system estimation (most recently, Attanasio et al. 2013).”