PhD Alum '17 Rebecca Taylor Publishes in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics

January 31, 2022

Professor Taylor's paper examines how banning the use of plastic carryout bags at grocery stores affects where and what people purchase to eat. Using quasi-random variation in local bag ban adoption across California and two data sources (retail scanner data and consumer survey data), Taylor shows that banning plastic carryout bags shifted some food sales away from regulated grocery stores toward unregulated grocery stores and restaurants. 

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