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Relative prices, consumer preferences, and the demand for food

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  • Rachel Griffith
  • Martin O’Connell
  • Kate Smith

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Shocks to world commodity prices and the depreciation of sterling led to a large increase in the price of food in the UK. It also resulted in large changes in the relative prices of different foods. We document these changes, and consider how they affected the composition of households’ shopping baskets. We isolate the impact of changes in relative food prices from variation in preferences using data on purchasing decisions made by a representative panel of British households. We show that changes in relative food prices led to a worsening in the nutritional quality of households’ shopping baskets, though this was partially mitigated by offsetting changes in preferences.

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  • Rachel Griffith & Martin O’Connell & Kate Smith, 2015. "Relative prices, consumer preferences, and the demand for food," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 31(1), pages 116-130.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxford:v:31:y:2015:i:1:p:116-130.
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    1. Nidhi Kaicker & Aashi Gupta & Raghav Gaiha, 2024. "Pandemic‐induced income shocks and dietary diversity in India," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 36(1), pages 479-501, January.
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    3. Jibonayan Raychaudhuri & Ada Wossink, 2018. "Ecolabels and The Economic Recession," Economics Discussion Paper Series 1807, Economics, The University of Manchester.
    4. Rachel Griffith & Martin O'Connell & Kate Smith, 2016. "Shopping Around: How Households Adjusted Food Spending Over the Great Recession," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 83(330), pages 247-280, April.
    5. Dragone, Davide & Ziebarth, Nicolas R., 2017. "Non-separable time preferences, novelty consumption and body weight: Theory and evidence from the East German transition to capitalism," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 41-65.
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    7. Kaicker, Nidhi & Gupta, Aashi & Gaiha, Raghav, 2022. "Covid-19 pandemic and food security in India: Can authorities alleviate the disproportionate burden on the disadvantaged?," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 44(5), pages 963-980.

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