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Food assistance and mobility during COVID-19 lockdowns

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  • Monica Mogollon
  • Juan Mogollon
  • Catalina Villamil

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This paper examines the effects of emergency food assistance on human mobility patterns between March and August of 2020. We study a large public-private initiative in Colombia, created to deliver food aid to one million households at risk of falling into poverty and previously not included in other assistance programmes. The impact is estimated using the quasi-exogenous roll out of the food distribution within municipalities. The high-frequency data set links detailed daily deliveries with georeferenced food recipients' location and mobility indicators measuring out-of-home events.

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  • Monica Mogollon & Juan Mogollon & Catalina Villamil, 2026. "Food assistance and mobility during COVID-19 lockdowns," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2026-18, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    1. Nora Lustig & Valentina Martinez Pabon & Federico Sanz & Stephen Younger, 2020. "The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns and Expanded Social Assistance on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico," Working Papers 556, Center for Global Development.
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