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Contracting Out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery : Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016
which a procurement process was introduced that allowed citizens to bid to take over the implementation of a subsidized rice … reported the quality of the rice improved. Bidding committees may have avoided quality problems by choosing bidders who had …
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Work Incentives and the Food Stamp Program
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2010
Labor supply theory makes strong predictions about how the introduction of a social welfare program impacts work effort. Although there is a large literature on the work incentive effects of AFDC and the EITC, relatively little is known about the work incentive effects of the Food Stamp Program...
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The Impact of Rainfall on Rice Output in Indonesia
Levine, David I. - 2014
rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in … combination with government administrative data on district-level rice output in the 1990s. We find that deviations from mean … local rainfall are positively associated with district-level rice output. 10% higher rainfall leads metric tons of rice …
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A Sticky-Price View of Hoarding
Hansman, Christopher; Hong, Harrison G.; de Paula, Aureo; … - 2021
covering the 2008 global rice crisis—a shock triggered by an Indian rice export ban—we find that household hoarding anticipated …
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Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2012
A growing economics literature establishes a causal link between in utero shocks and health and human capital in adulthood. Most studies rely on extreme negative shocks such as famine and pandemics. We are the first to examine the impact of a positive and policy-driven change in economic...
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Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?
Jensen, Robert T. - 2014
Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However, subsidizing goods on which households spend a high proportion of their budget can create large wealth effects. Consumers may then substitute towards foods with higher...
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How are Snap Benefits Spent? Evidence from a Retail Panel
Hastings, Justine S. - 2017
We use a novel retail panel with detailed transaction records to study the effect of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on household spending. We use administrative data to motivate three approaches to causal inference. The marginal propensity to consume SNAP-eligible food...
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The Effect of Providing Breakfast on Student Performance : Evidence from an In-Class Breakfast Program
Imberman, Scott A. - 2012
In response to low take-up, many public schools have experimented with moving breakfast from the cafeteria to the classroom. We examine whether such a program increases performance as measured by standardized test scores, grades and attendance rates. We exploit quasi-random timing of program...
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Expanding Governance as Development : Evidence on Child Nutrition in the Philippines
Berman, Eli - 2016
Worldwide, extreme poverty is often concentrated in spaces where people and property are not safe enough to sustain effective markets, and where development assistance is dangerous – and might even induce violence. Expanding governance by coercively taking control of territory may enable...
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Food Stamp Program and Consumption Choices
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2010
We study the effect of the Food Stamp Program (FSP) on consumption patterns in families headed by low-educated single mothers in the U.S. using the Consumer Expenditure Surveys for 1994-2004. Our analysis suggests that the food stamp caseload does not have any statistically significant...
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