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 …

The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) imposed significant changes in the information about calories and …-in-differences method. We compare the change before and after the implementation of NLEA in body weight among those who use labels when food …

inequality that emphasize supply-side factors such as food deserts …

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 …

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 … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …

We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … analysis thus suggests that food price subsidies are likely to affect agriculture markets without impacting nutrition … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption …

socioeconomic prosperity and improving human health. Today, U.S. government policy seeks to promote innovation through a suite of … Business Innovation Research program to the National Science Foundation. This book surveys key dimensions of innovation policy … investment and the case for public support of innovative activity. Part II examines human capital policy and mechanisms to expand …

We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … capital production function that summarizes available nutrition information. We find that although many youths suffer from … to be due solely to a shortage of food. Conversely, we find that our proxies for information matter. Our results suggest …