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

We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … in poor households. Further, our analysis shows that households allocated some of the increase in income from food price …

This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …

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 …

of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by family type, holding constant household size, age composition and … food. We cannot reject the hypothesis that the effect of replacing a biological child with a non- biological child is the … disaggregate food consumption more finely, we find that when a child's biological mother is the head or spouse of the head of …

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 …

Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …

The food supply chain has experienced major disruptions from both demand and supply sides during the Covid-19 pandemic …. While some consequences such as food waste are directly caused by the disruption due to supply chain inefficiency, others … are indirectly caused by a change in consumer’s preferences. As a result, evaluating food supply chain resilience is a …