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 …

This paper provides an analysis of the role of prices in determining food purchases and nutrition using very detailed … significantly larger impact on nutrition than an equivalent product tax, due to the fact that these are broader-based taxes. However …

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 …

one aspect of childhood obesity: food choice and consumption. Using a field experiment where we include more than 1 … obesity. For academics, our approach opens up an interesting combination of theory and experiment that can lead to a better …

participants. They conducted a large randomized field experiment (RFE) with over 1900 women from four WIC agencies in the state. In …

exploring job-entry decisions in a natural field experiment where we randomized nearly 7,000 interested job-seekers into … different compensation regimes. By varying the role that individual competition plays in setting the wage, we are able to … explore whether competition, by itself, can cause differential job entry. The data highlight the power of the compensation …

We design a laboratory experiment to investigate bilateral link formation in a setting where payoffs are pair …