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 …

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we track calorie consumption, dietary quality, vitamin deficiencies, and …

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 …

warranted. There exists a well-established link between nutrition and short-term cognitive functioning. Hence, we investigate … whether school districts exploit this relationship by strategically altering school nutrition menus during testing periods in … an apparent attempt to artificially increase student test scores. Using detailed daily school nutrition data from a …

food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and … increase conflict over the appropriation of surplus ("output conflict"). We argue that this difference arises because higher … factor conflict and output conflict. We validate local-level findings on output conflict using geocoded survey data on …