Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …

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 … in poor households. Further, our analysis shows that households allocated some of the increase in income from food price …

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 …

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …

I use changes in immigrant eligibility for food stamps under the 1996 federal law and heterogeneous state responses to … set up a natural experiment research design to study the effect of food stamps on Body Mass Index (BMI) of adults in … immigrant families. I find that in the post-1996 period food stamps use by foreign-born unmarried mothers with a high school or …

transfers decreases food insecurity and homelessness by 4.1% and 1.3% over five years, while the number of collections on VA … satisfaction. Apart from a reduction in self-reported pain, we estimate precise null effects on mental and physical health …

(1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD), and health (0.2 SD). These effects grow for the first seven years …

associations between SNAP and food insecurity, obesity, and the Healthy Eating Index. These results serve as a cautionary tale …

claims that there was a dramatic reduction in either food availability or the average height of birth cohorts in the late …