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

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 …

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 …

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …, weakening or perhaps even reversing the intended impact of the subsidy. We analyze data from a randomized program of large price … subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China and find no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it …

intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption …How much do calorie requirements vary across households and how do they affect food consumption patterns? Since caloric … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …

. Expenditures on food and home fuels are tracked by linking the Consumer Expenditure Survey to temperature data. Using the Third … National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we track calorie consumption, dietary quality, vitamin deficiencies, and … unusually cold weather (a 10 degree F drop below normal). At same time, poor families reduce food expenditures by roughly the …

the program improves the quality of food consumed. Finally, in households with school-aged children, both preschool … nutrition programs may be an effective way to combat both nutritional deficiencies and excess consumption among children and …

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 …

There is insufficient research on the direct effects of food advertising on children's diet and diet-related health … Survey-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) and the Nielsen Company data on spot television advertising of cereals, fast food … food advertising on television and children's food consumption and body weight. Our results suggest that soft drink and …

Healthy food choices are a canonical example used to illustrate the importance of time preferences in behavioral … food choice, capturing a number of behaviors consistent with self-control problems, which provides direct evidence for the … common assumption that important aspects of nutrition are driven by time preferences …