undermined nutrition by displacing local food production. Consistent with this hypothesis, a difference-in-differences estimation … shows that after the arrival of the boll weevil, food production in affected counties rose while cotton production and …

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …

Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …

We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … in poor households. Further, our analysis shows that households allocated some of the increase in income from food price …

This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …

The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on … Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with … of input use. The equilibrium organization of production and the network structure of input-output linkages arise …

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

(0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD), and health (0.2 SD). These effects grow for the first seven years …