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2022
- handle: 10670/1.jouyrm
- halshs: halshs-03673160
- doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101150
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Conflict economics Household economics Food consumption Stress D - Microeconomics/D.D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics D - Microeconomics/D.D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics/D.D1.D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis F - International Economics/F.F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy/F.F5.F52 - National Security • Economic Nationalism I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I1 - Health/I.I1.I12 - Health BehaviorSujets proches
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Daniel Mirza et al., « Household Expenditure in the Wake of Terrorism: evidence from high frequency in-home-scanner data », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101150
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This paper adds to the scant literature on the impact of terrorism on consumer behavior, focusing on household spending on goods that are sensitive to brain-stress neurocircuitry. These include sweet- and fat-rich foods but also home necessities and female-personal-hygiene products, the only female-targeted good in our data. We examine unique continuous in-home-scanner expenditure data for a representative sample of about 15,000 French households, observed in the days before and after the terrorist attack at the Bataclan concert-hall. We find that the attack increased expenditure on sugar-rich food by over 5% but not that on salty food or soda drinks. Spending on home maintenance products went up by almost 9%. We detect an increase of 23.5% in expenditure on women’s personal hygiene products. We conclude that these effects are short-lived and driven by the responses of households with children, youths, and those residing within a few-hours ride of the place of the attack.