simple evidence consistent with the existence of a link between the consumption of fruit and vegetables and high well … portions of fruit and vegetables. The pattern is remarkably robust to adjustment for a large number of other demographic …Humans run on a fuel called food. Yet economists and other social scientists rarely study what people eat. We provide …

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

quality of household food purchases using the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and propensity … score matching. A healthy purchasing index (HPI) is used to measure nutritional quality of household food purchases. WIC … foods explain the improvement in quality of food purchases, not self-selection of more nutrition-conscious households into …

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 …

household, the household spends significantly more on food, in particular on milk and fruit and vegetables, and significantly … disaggregate food consumption more finely, we find that when a child's biological mother is the head or spouse of the head of … of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by family type, holding constant household size, age composition and …

targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … toward increased consumption of wheat and rice and lower consumption of coarse grains, the unsubsidized staple food. Our …We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program …

Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the … UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate …

We study the effect of the Food Stamp Program (FSP) on consumption patterns in families headed by low-educated single … mothers in the U.S. using the Consumer Expenditure Surveys for 1994-2004. Our analysis suggests that the food stamp caseload … does not have any statistically significant association with per capita expenditure on food in families headed by low …

, on the food share of expenditures and consumption of calories among poor households in rural Kenya. Our preferred … estimate of the food elasticity following USD 709 transfers is 0.78 for expenditure, 0.60 for calories, and 1.29 for protein …