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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 … subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China and find no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it …
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The Child and Adult Care Food Program : Who is Served and What are Their Nutritional Outcomes?
Gordon, Rachel - 2010
This paper addresses three basic questions about an under-studied food subsidy program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who participate differ from those who do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141354
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Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families
Bhattacharya, Jay; DeLeire, Thomas; Haider, Steven J.; … - 2021
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we track calorie consumption, dietary quality, vitamin deficiencies, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216842
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How Consumer Price Subsidies Affect Nutrition
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2014
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 …
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Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology : The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy
Fogel, Robert W. - 2021
This paper sketches a theory of the secular decline in morbidity and mortality that takes account of changes in human physiology since 1700. The synergism between technological and physiological improvements has produced a form of human evolution, much more rapid than natural selection, which is...
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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124538
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How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels
Sexton, Steven - 2015
yield gains range from 65% for GE cotton to 12.4% for soybeans and appear to be higher in the developing world than in …
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Trade in Technology : A Potential Solution to the Food Security Challenges of the 21st Century
Hertel, Thomas W.; Baldos, Uris; Fuglie, Keith - 2022
The recent rise in caloric undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) demonstrates the continued relevance of the Malthusian footrace between food availability and population. Sluggish growth in farm productivity in SSA has brought to the fore the key role of agricultural technology in...
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What Do We Really Know About Food Security?
Cafiero, Carlo - 2013
the state of food insecurity in the world can be assessed from the perspectives of the availability of and the access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085501
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The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade
Carter, Colin A.; Steinbach, Sandro - 2022
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 induced a reorientation of international trade...
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