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A food demand system based on demand for characteristics
Bouis, Howarth E. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1995
A food demand system is proposed, based on demand for energy, variety, and tastes of foods. By specifying utility as an explicit function of these characteristics, the entire matrix of demand elasticities can be derived for n foods and one nonfood from prior specification of just four...
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Employment risk and job-seeker performance:
Godlonton, Susan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This paper examines the relationship between employment risk and job-seeker performance. To induce exogenous variation … for which they were applying. The findings show that job-seeker performance is highest and effort is lowest among those … assigned the lowest employment risk (a guaranteed alternative job), and performance is lowest and effort highest among those …
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