We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally … distributions of several food security measures. UQR estimates reveal that the negative marginal effect of a price increase on food … consumption is two and a half times larger for households that can afford to cut the value of food consumption (75th quantile …

measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of net …

evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health …

over six year of fundamental structural reforms of the economy. Our results highlight large and dramatically changing food …

In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and … eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner … workers' households. We also find that the price controls were particularly effective in changing the pattern of food spending …

food consumption. We also find that the lower tail of the household nutrition distribution drops away very rapidly, so that …This article re-examines the food consumption of working class households in 1904 and compares the nutritional content … investigate the likely impact of contemporary cultural food distribution norms and conclude on the basis of the very limited …

This paper analyzes urban-rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989-2006. The results show that on average …

associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show …

This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of …