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How Consumer Price Subsidies affect Nutrition
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2013
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 … subsidy to expenditures on non-food items. Estimates of the price effect of food price subsidy on the three measures of …
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Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting : Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi
Basurto, Pia M. - 2017
-scale subsidy programs in Malawi (for agricultural inputs and for food) decentralized to traditional leaders ("chiefs") who are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455298
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479974
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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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The Child and Adult Care Food Program : Who is Served and What are Their Nutritional Outcomes?
Gordon, Rachel A. - 2010
This paper addresses three basic questions about an under-studied food subsidy program, the Child and Adult Care Food … weight (BMI). We discuss the implications of our findings, especially in relation to other food and child care subsidy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462455
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Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?
Jensen, Robert T. - 2010
, weakening or perhaps even reversing the intended impact of the subsidy. We analyze data from a randomized program of large price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462554
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Reassessing the WIC Effect : Evidence from the Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System
Racine, Andrew D. - 2007
Recent analyses differ on how effective the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is at improving infant health. We use data from nine states that participate in the Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System to address limitations in previous work. With...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465208
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Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation
Courtemanche, Charles J. - 2018
Administrative data are considered the "gold standard" when measuring program participation, but little evidence exists on the potential problems with administrative records or their implications for econometric estimates. We explore issues with administrative data using the FoodAPS, a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453302
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Who Benefits Most from SNAP? A Study of Food Security and Food Spending
Deb, Partha - 2016
We study the effects of SNAP participation on food insecurity and food spending using finite mixture models that allow for a priori unspecified heterogeneous effects. We identify a low food security subgroup comprising a third of the population for whom SNAP participation increases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455703