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 …

-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the … and food security. On aggregate, the pandemic resulted in dramatic income losses, increases in food insecurity, and … prevalence of containment policies is associated with increased food insecurity, particularly for women, and with reduced female …

(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 …

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 …

approach, using food consumption to uncover ethnic and religious identity choices in India. We first show that consumption of … followed India's 1991 economic reforms. While social-identity research has focused on status and salience, economic costs …

inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non … taboos for particular foods. One natural question to ask is whether such food cultures matter in an economic sense. In … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional …

to panel data from Indian villages to generate a number of new insights. We find that food expenditures are better … protected from aggregate shocks than non-food consumption, after accounting for non-homotheticity. Village-level consumption …