We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … in poor households. Further, our analysis shows that households allocated some of the increase in income from food price …

How much do calorie requirements vary across households and how do they affect food consumption patterns? Since caloric … intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption … patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a …

Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …

inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between …

(1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD), and health (0.2 SD). These effects grow for the first seven years …

The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids … well as they did before COVID. Finally, consumption of food and fuel fell less than consumption of durables such as … consumption reflect large price shocks (rather than a retreat to subsistence) in sectors other than food and fuel/power. In the …