Determining the impacts on consumers of governmental policies that affect the demand for food products requires a theoretically consistent micro-level demand model. We estimate a system of demands for weekly city-level dairy product purchases by nonlinear three-stage least squares to account for...

Although the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food-assistance program purchases over half of all U.S. infant formula, I find it does not affect wholesale prices. I estimate infant-formula marginal cost and find it low compared with the wholesale price, implying large price-cost markups. But I...

Food stamp participants have higher food insufficiency rates than eligible nonparticipants, even after controlling for other factors. Given the Food Stamp Program's prominent role in the alleviation of hunger, this is a counterintuitive result. We conjecture that these higher rates are due to...