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From syringes to dishes : improving food security through vaccination

Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Fu, Wei; Tekin, Erdal; You, Shijun - 2023

This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on food insecurity in the United States, using data from the Household Pulse Survey. Our primary research design exploits variation in vaccine eligibility across states over time as an instrumental variable to address the endogeneity of...

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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature

Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...

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Impacts of double-fortified salt on anemia and cognition: four-year follow-up evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India

Grafenstein, Liza von; Kumar, Abhijeet; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2021

Long-term follow-up of early childhood health interventions is important for human capital accumulation. We provide experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition intervention in India. Using panel data, we examine the...

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Take-up and targeting : experimental evidence from SNAP

Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - 2018

This paper develops a framework for evaluating the welfare impact of various interventions designed to increase take-up of social safety net programs in the presence of potential behavioral biases. We calibrate the key parameters using a randomized field experiment in which 30,000 elderly...

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Federal nutrition programs and childhood obesity : inside the black box

Roy, Manan; Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2010

In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, particularly among low income individuals, federal nutrition assistance programs have come under scrutiny. However, the vast majority of this research focuses on the direct relationship between these programs and child health, while little...

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COVID-19 employment status impacts on food sector workers

Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020

Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with...

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Do Walmart supercenters improve food security?

Courtemanche, Charles; Carden, Art; Zhou, Xilin; … - 2018

This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow...

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Escaping from hunger before WW1 : nutrition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century

Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2017

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …

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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...

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After the farm crisis : religiosity in the rural United States

Orman, Wafa Hakim - 2013

agriculture. Chen (2010) describes increased religiosity in Indonesia following the 1998 financial crisis, and this paper …

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