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Shopping Around: How Households Adjusted Food Spending Over the Great Recession

Rachel Griffith Martin O'Connell Kate Smith
Economica Vol. 83 No. 330 pp. 247-280 · Wiley
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Abstract
Over the Great Recession, UK households reduced real food expenditure. We show that they were able to maintain the number of calories that they purchased, and the nutritional quality of these calories, by adjusting their shopping behaviour. We document the mechanisms that households used. We motivate our analysis with a model of shopping behaviour in which households adjust shopping effort and the characteristics of their shopping basket in response to economic shocks. We use detailed longitudinal data and focus on within‐household changes in basket characteristics and proxies for shopping effort.
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Published
Oct 10, 2015
Vol/Issue
83(330)
Pages
247-280
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Authors
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Rachel Griffith

Institute for Fiscal Studies University of Manchester

M
Martin O'Connell

Institute for Fiscal Studies University College London

K
Kate Smith

Institute for Fiscal Studies University College London

Funding
European Research Council Award: ERC-2009-AdG
Economic and Social Research Council
Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) Award: RES-544-28-0001
Open Research Area (ORA) Award: ES/I012222/1
Cite This Article
Rachel Griffith, Martin O'Connell, Kate Smith (2015). Shopping Around: How Households Adjusted Food Spending Over the Great Recession. Economica, 83(330), 247-280. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12166
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