Can economic crises be good for your diet?

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With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary impact of both falling real incomes in the context of hyperinflation and crisis and changing relative prices and the changing responsiveness of different groups of people to these incomes and prices over six year of fundamental structural reforms of the economy. Our results highlight large and dramatically changing food and nutrient elasticities, which challenge the perception of household ability to smooth their nutrient stream during economic crises and transitions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Arbeiten aus dem Osteuropa-Institut Regensburg ; No. 299

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Business Fluctuations; Cycles ; Health Behavior ; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population ; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: National Income, Product, and Expenditure; Money; Inflation ; Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
• Subject: Crisis, Diet, Fluctuation, Health, Nutrition ; Ernährung ; Nahrungsmittelkonsum ; Übergangswirtschaft ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Bulgarien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Dimova, Ralitza ; Gang, Ira N. ; Gbakou, Monnet ; Hoffman, Daniel
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Osteuropa-Institut Regensburg
• (where): Regensburg
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/57791
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET