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Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy

Bhattacharya, Jay; Haider, Steven; Currie, Janet M. - 2021

We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …

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The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases : Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision

Marcus, Michelle; Yewell, Katherine - 2023

We find access to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) had a meaningful impact on grocery spending for households with children, with monthly food purchases declining by about $11, or 5 percent. For households in zip codes with higher exposure, the...

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Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields : The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects

Schlenker, Wolfram - 2013

The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans, so any impact on US crop yields will have implications for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level crop yields in the US with a fine-scale weather data set that incorporates the whole distribution of...

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Local Food Prices, Snap Purchasing Power, and Child Health

Bronchetti, Erin Todd - 2018

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) is one of the most important elements of the social safety net. Unlike most other safety net programs, SNAP varies little across states and over time, which creates challenges for quasi-experimental evaluation. Notably,...

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Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?

Courtemanche, Charles - 2018

This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow...

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Food Stamps and America's Poorest

Jolliffe, Dean - 2019

The paper provides the first assessment of: (i) America's progress in lifting the lower bound—the floor—of the distribution of real income; (ii) whether the country's largest antipoverty program, SNAP (“food stamps”), helped do so. An operational method of estimating the floor is...

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Child Age and Gender Differences in Food Security in a Low-Income Inner-City Population

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2016

A long literature in economics studies differential allocations of resources to children within the family. In a study of approximately 1,600 very disadvantaged households with children in three cities in the U.S. from 1999 to 2005, significant differences in levels of food allocation, as...

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Who Benefits Most from Snap? A Study of Food Security and Food Spending

Deb, Partha - 2017

We study the effects of SNAP participation on food insecurity and food spending using finite mixture models that allow for a priori unspecified heterogeneous effects. We identify a low food security subgroup comprising a third of the population for whom SNAP participation increases the...

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Is the Focus on Food Deserts Fruitless? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

Handbury, Jessie - 2015

Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we measure the role of access in explaining why wealthier and more educated households purchase healthier foods. We find that spatial differences in access, though significant, are...

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How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels

Sexton, Steven E. - 2015

Increased global demand for biofuels is placing increased pressure on agricultural systems at a time when traditional sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of food prices. This paper estimates the impact of global adoption of genetically...

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