Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145444 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. W15/29
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
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.
Subjects: 
consumption smoothing
recession
nutrition
JEL: 
D12
I31
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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