and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) merged with several food prices measured by county and year. This is the first …In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … study to consider clinically measured levels of body composition rather than BMI to investigate the effects of food prices …

Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to document the trajectories of financial hardships, food …

We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally … distributions of several food security measures. UQR estimates reveal that the negative marginal effect of a price increase on food … consumption is two and a half times larger for households that can afford to cut the value of food consumption (75th quantile …

linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict … effects on household food security – measured by calorie intake and the real value of food consumed – based on the level of …

In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and … eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner … workers’ households. We also find that the price controls were particularly effective in changing the pattern of food spending …

evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health …

The distribution of income within the household is found to matter for the allocation of resources towards nutrition … the number of income earners is associated with a change in food calorie consumption controlling for the change in … particular, when a female household member starts earning income, food consumption increases substantively. When it is a male …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … imply a lack of nutrition during that age interval, and vice versa, and in this sense the observed difference at most …

The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their …