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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

taboos for particular foods. One natural question to ask is whether such food cultures matter in an economic sense. In … inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional …

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 …

one aspect of childhood obesity: food choice and consumption. Using a field experiment where we include more than 1 … (loss versus gain) matters. While incentives work, we find that educational messaging alone has little influence on food … important influence on food choice. For policymakers, our findings show the power of using incentives to combat childhood …

consuming more calories. The increase in food consumption is itself the result of technological innovations which made it … possible for food to be mass prepared far from the point of consumption, and consumed with lower time costs of preparation and …

, we use a novel data set which collects detailed food diaries for a large cross-section of U.S. households. We show that … despite the decline in food expenditures, neither the quantity nor the quality of food intake deteriorates with retirement …