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Title: Of Men and Rice: The Effect of Migrant Diversity on Households’ Food Expenditure

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: This paper examines the effect of migrant diversity on households’ expenditure on food products. Using product attribute descriptions from the Nielsen Consumer Panel dataset and mapping it to a corpus of recipes, I calculate a region weighted expenditure share for each household. Exploiting variation in migrant settlement patterns across counties and country of origin, I find that a one percentage point increase in foreign-born share of a particular region is associated with a 0.28 percentage point increase in expenditure share on consumer packaged goods associated with that region. However, a negative relationship is observed among Asian countries. The findings are robust to various means of constructing the dataset, expenditure shares and choice of instruments.

Url: https://www.timlrx.com/files/mig_cons_paper.pdf

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Authors: Lin, Ronxian, T

Publisher: Quasilinear Musings

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