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Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families

Bhattacharya, Jayanta - 2002

We examine the effects of cold weather periods on family budgets and on nutritional outcomes in poor American families. Expenditures on food and home fuels are tracked by linking the Consumer Expenditure Survey to temperature data. Using the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination...

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Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy

Bhattacharya, Jayanta - 2002

We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …

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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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Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply

Gray, Colin; Leive, Adam; Prager, Elena; Pukelis, Kelsey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Work requirements are common in U.S. safety net programs. Evidence remains limited, however, on the extent to which work requirements increase economic self-sufficiency or screen out vulnerable individuals. Using linked administrative data on food stamps (SNAP) and earnings with a regression...

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Women's Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment

Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic brought the dual crises of disease and the containment policies designed to mitigate it. Yet, there is little evidence on the impacts of these policies on women, who are likely to be especially vulnerable, in lower-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and...

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Effects of Welfare Reform on Household Food Insecurity Across Generations

Corman, Hope; Dave, Dhaval; Reichman, Nancy E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This study estimated the effects of welfare reform in the 1990s, which permanently restructured and contracted the cash assistance system in the U.S., on food insecurity--a fundamental form of hardship--of the next generation of households. An implicit goal underlying welfare reform was the...

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Impacts of Basic Income on Health and Economic Well-Being : Evidence from the VA's Disability Compensation Program

Silver, David; Zhang, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study impacts of a cash transfer program with no means-test and no work restrictions: the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Disability Compensation program. Our empirical strategy leverages quasi-random assignment of veterans claiming mental disorder disability to examiners who vary in...

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Food Stamps and America’s Poorest

Jolliffe, Dean - 2019

The paper provides the first assessment of: (i) America's progress in lifting the lower bound--the floor--of the distribution of real income; (ii) whether the country's largest antipoverty program, SNAP ("food stamps"), helped do so. An operational method of estimating the floor is implemented on...

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The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade

Carter, Colin A. - 2020

This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and induced a reorientation of international trade...

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Trade in Technology : A Potential Solution to the Food Security Challenges of the 21st Century

Hertel, Thomas W. - 2020

The recent rise in caloric undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) demonstrates the continued relevance of the Malthusian footrace between food availability and population. Sluggish growth in farm productivity in SSA has brought to the fore the key role of agricultural technology in...

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