We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … nutrition are also negligible. We find evidence that the decline in the price of wheat and rice, changed consumption patterns …

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 …

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

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 …

include the measurement of hunger and the role of caloric requirements in explaining food consumption puzzles related to …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 …

Healthy food choices are a canonical example used to illustrate the importance of time preferences in behavioral … a field experiment that includes grocery purchases and consumption. Our present-focus measure is highly predictive of … food choice, capturing a number of behaviors consistent with self-control problems, which provides direct evidence for the …

consumption. However, as noted by Becker (1965), consumption is the output of a home production' function that uses both … expenditure and time as inputs. With this in mind, we revisit the retirement consumption puzzle by documenting that the dramatic … innovation of our paper is that we empirically disentangle changes in actual consumption from changes in expenditures. To do so …

consuming more calories. The increase in food consumption is itself the result of technological innovations which made it … possible for food to be mass prepared far from the point of consumption, and consumed with lower time costs of preparation and …

one aspect of childhood obesity: food choice and consumption. Using a field experiment where we include more than 1 … (loss versus gain) matters. While incentives work, we find that educational messaging alone has little influence on food … important influence on food choice. For policymakers, our findings show the power of using incentives to combat childhood …

taboos for particular foods. One natural question to ask is whether such food cultures matter in an economic sense. In … inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional …