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Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy
Bhattacharya, Jay; Haider, Steven J.; Currie, Janet - 2021
We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …
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The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61
Meng, Xin - 2010
This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions with higher per capita food production that year suffered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138144
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A Revealed Preference Approach to Measuring Hunger and Undernutrition
Jensen, Robert T. - 2014
, and to construct poverty lines. However, it is generally recognized that the sufficiency of an individual's caloric intake … and wealth. We propose a revealed preference approach to measuring hunger and undernutrition that overcomes these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068992
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Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?
Jensen, Robert T. - 2014
Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However, subsidizing goods on which households spend a high proportion of their budget can create large wealth effects. Consumers may then substitute towards foods with higher...
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How Consumer Price Subsidies Affect Nutrition
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2014
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 patterns in favor of the subsidized grains and...
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The Great Escape : A Review Essay on Fogel'S 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'
Deaton, Angus - 2021
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history of health, but for explaining aspects of current health,...
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Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger : Famines, Price Elasticities, Entitlements, Chronic Malnutrition, and Mortality Rates
Fogel, Robert W. - 2022
The six principal findings of this paper are as follows: (1) crisis mortality accounted for less than 5 percent of total mortality in England prior to 1800 and the elimination of crisis mortality accounted for just 15 percent of the decline in total mortality between the eighteenth and...
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Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence Using Nutrition Data for Africa
Brown, Caitlin - 2017
higher undernutrition tend to have higher shares of undernourished individuals in non-poor households. The results are …
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Food Stamps and America's Poorest
Jolliffe, Dean - 2019
The paper provides the first assessment of: (i) America's progress in lifting the lower bound—the floor—of the distribution of real income; (ii) whether the country's largest antipoverty program, SNAP (“food stamps”), helped do so. An operational method of estimating the floor is...
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Long-Term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; Sharma, Garima - 2022
This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...
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