COVID-19 market disruptions and food security: Evidence from households in rural Liberia and Malawi

We use data collected from panel phone surveys to document the changes in food security of households in rural Liberia and Malawi during the market disruptions associated with the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. We use two distinct empirical approaches in our analysis: (a) an event study around the date...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, Shilpa, Jeong, Dahyeon, Kumar, Naresh, Park, David Sungho, Robinson, Jonathan, Spearot, Alan
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9359542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35939434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271488
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author Aggarwal, Shilpa
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Kumar, Naresh
Park, David Sungho
Robinson, Jonathan
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description We use data collected from panel phone surveys to document the changes in food security of households in rural Liberia and Malawi during the market disruptions associated with the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. We use two distinct empirical approaches in our analysis: (a) an event study around the date of the lockdowns (March to July 2020), and (b) a difference-in-differences analysis comparing the lockdown period in 2020 to the same months in 2021, in order to attempt to control for seasonality. In both countries, market activity was severely disrupted and we observe declines in expenditures. However, we find no evidence of declines in food security.
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spelling pubmed-93595422022-08-10 COVID-19 market disruptions and food security: Evidence from households in rural Liberia and Malawi Aggarwal, Shilpa Jeong, Dahyeon Kumar, Naresh Park, David Sungho Robinson, Jonathan Spearot, Alan PLoS One Research Article We use data collected from panel phone surveys to document the changes in food security of households in rural Liberia and Malawi during the market disruptions associated with the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. We use two distinct empirical approaches in our analysis: (a) an event study around the date of the lockdowns (March to July 2020), and (b) a difference-in-differences analysis comparing the lockdown period in 2020 to the same months in 2021, in order to attempt to control for seasonality. In both countries, market activity was severely disrupted and we observe declines in expenditures. However, we find no evidence of declines in food security. Public Library of Science 2022-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9359542/ /pubmed/35939434 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271488 Text en © 2022 Aggarwal et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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