The Short-and Long-Term Costs of a Severe Drought on Retail Peanut Butter Prices and Consumers

This article investigates the short-and long-Term costs of an extreme weather event on retail food prices and consumer expenditures. We utilize the 2011 severe peanut drought as a quasi-natural experiment and find that retail peanut butter prices increased 21.3% as a result of the drought-driven sho...

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Main Authors: Astill, G.M (Author), Dong, X. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2021
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