Research
Publications
Economics
Burlinson, A., Davillas, A., Law, C. (2022). Pay (for it) as you go: Prepaid energy meters and the heat-or-eat dilemma. Social Science & Medicine, 115498.
Law, C., and Cornelsen, L. (2022). Persistent consumer response to a nationwide food safety recall in urban India. Q Open, 2(2), qoac025.
Faccioli, M., Law, C., Caine, C., Berger, N., Yan, X., Weninger, F., Guell, C., Day, B., Smith, R., Bateman, I. (2022). Combined carbon and health taxes outperform single-purpose information or scal measures in designing sustainable food policies Nature Food, 3, 331-340.
Law, C., Smith, R. and Cornelsen, L. (2022). Place matters: Out-of-home demand for foods and beverages in Great Britain. Food Policy, 107, 102215.
Burlinson, A., Giulietti, M., Law, C. and Liu, H.H. (2021). Fuel poverty and financial distress. Energy Economics, 105464.
Hussein, M., Law, C., Fraser, I. (2021). An analysis of food demand in a fragile and insecure country: Somalia as a case study. Food Policy, 101, 102092.
Law, C., Cornelsen, L., Adams, J., Pell, D., Rutter, H., White, M., & Smith, R. (2020). The impact of UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy on manufacturers' domestic turnover. Economics & Human Biology, 37, 100866.
Law, C., Cornelsen, L., Adams, J., Penney, T., Rutter, H., White, M., & Smith, R. (2020). An analysis of the stock market reaction to the announcements of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy. Economics & Human Biology, 38, 100834. Press release: LSHTM, CEDAR, Exeter
Brock, M., Fraser, I., Law, C., Mitchell, S., & Roberts, D. L. (2020). An economic analysis of twitching behaviour and species rarity. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 1-20.
Law, C., Fraser, I., & Piracha, M. (2020). Nutrition Transition and Changing Food Preferences in India. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 71, 118-143.
Law, C. (2019). Unintended consequence of trade on regional dietary patterns in rural India. World Development, 113, 277-293.
Public Health
White, M., Adams, J., Law, C., Scarborough, P., & SDIL Evaluation team. (2022). The UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy as an Incentive for Beverage Reformulation. In HEALTH TAXES: Policy and Practice (pp. 116-125).
Tak, M., Law, C., Green, R., Shankar, B.,& Cornelsen, L. (2022). Processed foods purchase profiles in urban India in 2013 and 2016: a cluster and multivariate analysis. BMJ Open, 12(10),e062254.
Yau, A., Berger, N., Law, C., Cornelsen, L., Greener, R., Adams, J., Boyland, E., Burgoine, T., de Vocht, F., Egan, M., Er, V., Lake, A.A, Lock, K., Myttom, O., Petticrew, P., Thompson, C., White, M. and Cummins, S. (2022). Changes in household food and drink purchases following restrictions on the advertisement of high fat, salt, and sugar products across the Transport for London network: a controlled interrupted time series analysis, PLOS Medicine 19(2): e1003915. Media Coverage:e.g. The Guardian; Sky News, Evening Standard and others. Press release: LSHTM, Bristol
Law, C., Brown, K.A., Green, R., Venkateshmurthy, N.S., Mohan, S., Scheelbeek, P.F., Shankar, B., Dangour, A.D. and Cornelsen, L. (2021). Changes in take-home aerated soft drink purchases in urban India after the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST): An interrupted time series analysis. SSM-Population Health, 14, 100794.
Brown, K.A., Venkateshmurthy, N.S., Law, C., Harris, F., Kadiyala, S., Shankar, B., Mohan, S., Prabhakaran, D. and Knai, C. (2021). Moving towards sustainable food systems: A review of Indian food policy budgets. Global Food Security, 28, 100462.
Cummins, S., Berger, N., Cornelsen, L., Eling, J., Er, V., Greener, R., Kalbus, A., Karapici, A., Law, C., Ndlovu, D. & Yau, A. (2020) COVID-19: impact on the urban food retail system and dietary inequalities in the UK, Cities & Health.
Law, C., Green, R., Kadiyala, S., B. S., Knai, C., Brown, K. A., Dangour, A. D., & Cornelsen, L. (2019). Purchase trends of processed foods and beverages in urban India. Global Food Security, 23, 191-204
Working papers
PRIMEtime: an epidemiological model for informing diet and obesity policy (with Linda Cobiac and Peter Scarborough)
Work in progress
Do healthier diets cost more? (with Andrés Sánchez Pájaro, Richard Smith and Laura Cornelsen)