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 …

We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … analysis thus suggests that food price subsidies are likely to affect agriculture markets without impacting nutrition … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption …

I use changes in immigrant eligibility for food stamps under the 1996 federal law and heterogeneous state responses to … set up a natural experiment research design to study the effect of food stamps on Body Mass Index (BMI) of adults in … immigrant families. I find that in the post-1996 period food stamps use by foreign-born unmarried mothers with a high school or …

foods explain the improvement in quality of food purchases, not self-selection of more nutrition-conscious households into …We examine the effect of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on the … quality of household food purchases using the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and propensity …

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 …

The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) imposed significant changes in the information about calories and …-in-differences method. We compare the change before and after the implementation of NLEA in body weight among those who use labels when food …

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 … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …

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 probability of high food security by 20-30 percentage points. There is no …

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 decline is as high as $39 per month, or 19 percent. The composition of food …, CEP exposure is associated with an almost 5 percent decline in households classified as food insecure. Our results on the …