Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246767 
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Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
HFI Working Paper No. 13
Publisher: 
Institute of Retail Economics (HFI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
This study examines changes in the access to food stores between 2000-2013 using Swedish register data. The analysis shows that there have been increases of, on average, 400 meters in the neighborhood-level average distance to the nearest store. These changes are not systematically biased towards socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. I also analyze the relationship between population density and the distance from the neighborhood centroid to the nearest food store using a spatiotemporal analysis of panel data covering the same period. The analysis finds that a decline in population density is related to an increase in the distance to the nearest food store. This indicates that as long as there is a decline in population density, food store access by proximity will continue to decrease.
Subjects: 
food
urbanization
retail
panel-data
spatial-analysis
JEL: 
B23
C33
D22
L81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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