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Learning and Behavioral Spillovers of Nutritional Information
Singh, Prakarsh - 2016
This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three groups, a treatment group, a neighboring spillover group, and a non-adjacent pure control group. Mothers of children (aged 3-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers are...
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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie - 2015
The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...
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Early-Life Famine Exposure, Hunger Recall and Later-Life Health
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021
We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a...
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Estimating the Associations between Snap and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation
Courtemanche, Charles - 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...
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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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Developments in Undernutrition in Indian Children Under Five : A Decompositional Analysis
Nie, Peng - 2016
conduct a systematic decompositional analysis of the demographic and socio-economic factors contributing to undernutrition …-linear, and unconditional quantile. Child undernutrition is measured by z-scores for height-for-age (HAZ), weight-for-height (WHZ … improvements on some measures, undernutrition among India's young children remains widespread. The improvements we do identify are …
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Performance Pay and Malnutrition
Singh, Prakarsh - 2016
We carry out a randomized controlled experiment in West Bengal, India to test three separate performance pay treatments in the public health sector. Performance is judged on improvements in child malnutrition. We exogenously change wages of government employed child care workers through either...
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Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and Their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2018
Accurately measuring government benefit receipt in household surveys is necessary when studying disadvantaged populations and the programs that serve them. The Food Stamp Program is especially important given its size and recent growth. To validate survey reports, we use administrative data on...
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Take-Up and Targeting : Experimental Evidence from Snap
Finkelstein, Amy - 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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Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition : Evidence from a School Lunch Reform
Alex-Petersen, Jesper - 2018
We examine the long-term impact of a policy that introduced free and nutritious school lunches in Swedish primary schools. For this purpose, we use historical data on the gradual implementation of the policy across municipalities and employ a difference- in-differences design to estimate the...
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