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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Food Policy. 2019 Oct 26;89:101783. doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.101783

Table 4.

Changes in prices: Firm analyses with uncorrected prices.

Cookies Ready-to-eat cereals Salty snacks and peanuts Pre-packaged sweet bread
Post 0.06 *** 0.066 *** 0.047 *** 0.048 ***
(0.01) (0.013) (0.003) (0.002)
NLF#1-Post −0.017 *** −0.038 *** 0.003 *** −0.041 ***
(0.000) (0.000) (0.000) (0.001)
NLF#2-Post −0.065 *** −0.001 0.02 *** −0.042 ***
(0.000) (0.001) (0.000) (0.000)
NLF#3-Post −0.163 *** 0.077 *** −0.023 *** −0.007 ***
(0.001) (0.001) (0.000) (0.000)
NLF#4-Post −0.067 *** 0.043 *** 0.05 ***
(0.001) (0.001) (0.000) (0.000)
NLF#5-Post −0.136 *** 0.001
(0.001) (0.001)
NLF#6-Post −0.053 *** −0.051 ***
(0.000) (0.000)
NLF#7-Post 0.028 ***
(0.001)
NLF#8-Post 0.013 ***
(0.001)
NLF#9-Post −0.05 ***
(0.000)
Lagged GIEA 0.000 0.003 * 0.000 0.001 *
(0.000) (0.001) (0.001) (0.000)
Population −0.069 *** −0.064 *** −0.065 *** −0.076 ***
(0.012) (0.013) (0.009) (0.002)
N 173,984 88,208 158,888 44,083

Notes: Standard error in parentheses. Uncorrected prices do not correct for biases associated with households’ and retailers’ characteristics. Models included UPI, city, and month fixed effects, a constant, and linear and squared time trends.

*

p < 0.10

**

p < 0.05

***

p < 0.010. Post: years 2014–15, NLF: Non-leading firm, GIEA: Global Indicator of Economic

Source: Authors’ own analyses and calculations based on data from Nielsen through its Mexico Consumer Panel Service (CPS) for the food and beverage categories for January 2012 – December 2015. The Nielsen Company, 2016. Nielsen is not responsible for and had no role in preparing the results reported herein.