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Contracting out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery : Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2015
which a procurement process was introduced that allowed citizens to bid to take over the implementation of a subsidized rice … reported the quality of the rice improved. Bidding committees may have avoided quality problems by choosing bidders who had …
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Work Incentives and the Food Stamp Program
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2010
Labor supply theory makes strong predictions about how the introduction of a social welfare program impacts work effort. Although there is a large literature on the work incentive effects of AFDC and the EITC, relatively little is known about the work incentive effects of the Food Stamp Program...
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Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers : Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program
Hoynes, Hilary W. - 2007
Economists have strong theoretical predictions about how in-kind transfer programs -- such as providing vouchers for food -- impact consumption. Despite the prominence of the theory, there has been little empirical work documenting actual responses to in-kind transfers. In this work, we leverage...
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A Sticky-Price View of Hoarding
Hansman, Christopher - 2020
promotion or for the purpose of retail arbitrage. Using US supermarket scanner data covering the 2008 Global Rice Crisis, an … episode driven by an observable cost shock due an Indian ban on raw rice exports, we find that sticky prices account for a …
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The Impact of Rainfall on Rice Output in Indonesia
Levine, David I. - 2014
rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in … combination with government administrative data on district-level rice output in the 1990s. We find that deviations from mean … local rainfall are positively associated with district-level rice output. 10% higher rainfall leads metric tons of rice …
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Youths at Nutritional Risk : Malnourished or Misnourished?
Bhattacharya, Jay - 2000
We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants of poor nutritional outcomes among American youths. One strength of our analysis is that we focus on an array of nutritional outcomes, and we find in fact that the determinants...
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The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change
Philipson, Tomas J. - 1999
This paper analyzes the factors contributing to the worldwide long-run rise in obesity and the effects of public interventions on its continued growth. The growth of obesity in a population results from an increase in calorie consumption relative to physical activity. Yet in developed countries,...
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School Food Policy Affects Everyone : Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program
Handbury, Jessie; Moshary, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the private market response to the National School Lunch Program, documenting economically meaningful spillovers to non-recipients. We focus on the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), an expansion of the lunch program under the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Under the CEP,...
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The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases : Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision
Marcus, Michelle M.; Yewell, Katherine G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We find evidence that exposure to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) had a meaningful impact on grocery spending for households with children, with monthly food purchases declining by about $11, or 5 percent. For households in zip codes with higher...
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Do State SNAP Policies Influence Program Participation among Seniors?
Jones, Jordan W.; Courtemanche, Charles; Denteh, Augustine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Senior participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has traditionally been lower than other groups among those eligible, with historical estimates below 50 percent. We examine the impacts of state SNAP policies on program participation among low-income senior (age 60 and...
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