| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24750 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24750 |
| Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security? | |
| Charles J. Courtemanche; Art Carden; Murugi Ndirangu; Xilin Zhou | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-06-25 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow geographic identifiers available in the restricted version of these data, we compute the distance between each household’s census tract of residence and the nearest Walmart Supercenter. We estimate instrumental variables models that leverage the predictable geographic expansion patterns of Walmart Supercenters outward from Walmart’s corporate headquarters. Results suggest that closer proximity to a Walmart Supercenter improves the food security of households and children, as measured by number of affirmative responses to a food insecurity questionnaire and an indicator for food insecurity. The effects are largest among low-income households and children, but are also sizeable for middle-income children. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Agriculture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24750 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582422 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Charles J. Courtemanche,Art Carden,Murugi Ndirangu,et al. Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?. 2018. |
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| w24750.pdf（713KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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