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 …

We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In … food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and … increasingly valuable surplus as their real wages fall. In regions without crop agriculture, higher food prices increase both …

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 …

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 …

Previous research has used survey and diary data to carefully document that Food Stamp recipients decrease their … expenditures and consumption of food throughout the benefit month, the beginning of which is defined by the date on which benefits … for why food consumption cycles. Using detailed grocery store scanner data we ask 1) whether cycling is due to a desire …

significantly less on food and total consumption, after controlling for income, wealth, employment, demographics, and macro …