nutrition trap (but are not necessarily overweight) are at increased risk of metabolic disease. The model and the underlying …

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However … subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China and find no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it …

1955. Improvement in nutrition and health may account for as much as 30 percent of the growth in conventionally measured …

undermined nutrition by displacing local food production. Consistent with this hypothesis, a difference-in-differences estimation …

We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … grains that are cheaper, yet taste-wise, inferior sources of nutrition, but had no effect on calorie, protein and fat intake … nutrition are also negligible. We find evidence that the decline in the price of wheat and rice, changed consumption patterns …