patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a …

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 …

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 …

We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … grains that are cheaper, yet taste-wise, inferior sources of nutrition, but had no effect on calorie, protein and fat intake … nutrition are also negligible. We find evidence that the decline in the price of wheat and rice, changed consumption patterns …

approach, using food consumption to uncover ethnic and religious identity choices in India. We first show that consumption of …'s prescribed behaviors. We propose and estimate a modified demand system to quantify the identity changes that followed India …

inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non …

breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases … suggest that the gender gap in breastfeeding explains 14 percent of excess female child mortality in India, or about 22 …

nutrition trap (but are not necessarily overweight) are at increased risk of metabolic disease. The model and the underlying … biological mechanism, which are validated with micro-data from India, Indonesia and Ghana can jointly explain inter …