Consumer Food Buying during a Recession

Jayson Lusk and Brandon McFadden

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2021, vol. 36, issue 3

Abstract: Recessions are typically associated with lower incomes, greater unemployment, and increases in free time. This article reviews how food buying and consumption changed in past recessions, and discusses how the COVID-19 related recession, which is atypical in terms of impacts on household incomes and savings rates, has affected food consumption behaviors.

Keywords: Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.311039

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