Food Prices and the Timing of Welfare Payments
A Canadian Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11970058 |
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| Authors | Georges A Tanguay (0000-0001-5206-6237, corresponding author), Georges Tanguay, Gary L Hunt, Gary Hunt, Nicolas Marceau |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 145-145 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0317-0861 • E-ISSN: 1911-9917 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3552626 |
| OpenAlex | W2045437075 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This is a study of the relationship between the timing of social welfare payments and the price of food for one neighbourhood in Montreal. Using prices of 31 grocery products over 26 weeks and across seven stores, we obtain two main results. First, we show that the availability of social welfare resources affects grocery prices throughout the month. Second, average grocery prices are lowest during cheque-receipt week and rise by 6.8 percent to 11.72 percent over the remainder of the monthly social welfare cycle. We argue that these results are consistent with social welfare recipients having progressively less resources for transportation over a month and therefore are more reliant on local grocery stores
Agricultural economics · Business · Economics · Market economy · Monetary economics · Payment · Public economics · Welfare · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Finance
| Highly cited | No |
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