We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … analysis thus suggests that food price subsidies are likely to affect agriculture markets without impacting nutrition … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption …

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 … subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China and find no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it …

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

, on the food share of expenditures and consumption of calories among poor households in rural Kenya. Our preferred … estimate of the food elasticity following USD 709 transfers is 0.78 for expenditure, 0.60 for calories, and 1.29 for protein …

This paper provides an analysis of the role of prices in determining food purchases and nutrition using very detailed … significantly larger impact on nutrition than an equivalent product tax, due to the fact that these are broader-based taxes. However …

foods explain the improvement in quality of food purchases, not self-selection of more nutrition-conscious households into …We examine the effect of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on the … quality of household food purchases using the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and propensity …

of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by family type, holding constant household size, age composition and … food. We cannot reject the hypothesis that the effect of replacing a biological child with a non- biological child is the … disaggregate food consumption more finely, we find that when a child's biological mother is the head or spouse of the head of …