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 …

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

Managing the outbreak of COVID-19 in India constitutes an unprecedented health emergency in one of the largest and most … diverse nations in the world. On May 4, 2020, India started the process of releasing its population from a national lockdown …

This paper first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade in staple foods … during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes--reductions in import protection or increases in export restraints …, than are designed to provide social protection for the poor when international food prices spike. It also examines the …

on food stamps (SNAP) and earnings with a regression discontinuity design, we find robust evidence that work requirements …

assistance system in the U.S., on food insecurity--a fundamental form of hardship--of the next generation of households. An … welfare reform led to decreases in food insecurity of the next generation of households, by about 10% for a 5-year increase in …