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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

-sum transfers are not necessarily superior to distortionary trade policy. We develop this argument in the context of food export …