undermined nutrition by displacing local food production. Consistent with this hypothesis, a difference-in-differences estimation … shows that after the arrival of the boll weevil, food production in affected counties rose while cotton production and …

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …

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 …

assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely … higher undernutrition tend to have higher shares of undernourished individuals in non-poor households. The results are …

biological mechanism, which are validated with micro-data from India, Indonesia and Ghana can jointly explain inter …-regional (Asia-Africa) differences in nutritional status and the prevalence of diabetes …

promotes protective risk mitigation behaviors early in the COVID-19 pandemic across four African countries (Ghana, Malawi … provision of health information, likely reduced the severity of the pandemic in Africa but was not a panacea …

large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last …-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville retail and food service workers with young children (58 percent working in …

This paper explores the effects of relative food prices on body weight and body fat over time in China. We study a … effect does not always hold for body weight. These findings suggest that changes in food consumption patterns induced by … varying food prices can increase percentage body fat to risky levels even without substantial weight gain. In addition, food …