@article{ref1,
title="Household expenditure in the wake of terrorism: evidence from high frequency in-home-scanner data",
journal="Economics and human biology",
year="2022",
author="Mirza, Daniel and Stancanelli, Elena and Verdier, Thierry",
volume="46",
number="",
pages="e101150-e101150",
abstract="This paper adds to the scant literature on the impact of terrorism on consumer behaviour, 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1570-677X",
doi="10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101150",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101150"
}