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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 … subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China and find no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it …
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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 … grains that are cheaper, yet taste-wise, inferior sources of nutrition, but had no effect on calorie, protein and fat intake … nutrition are also negligible. We find evidence that the decline in the price of wheat and rice, changed consumption patterns …
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Expanding Governance as Development : Evidence on Child Nutrition in the Philippines
Berman, Eli - 2016
Worldwide, extreme poverty is often concentrated in spaces where people and property are not safe enough to sustain effective markets, and where development assistance is dangerous – and might even induce violence. Expanding governance by coercively taking control of territory may enable...
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Youths at Nutritional Risk : Malnourished or Misnourished?
Bhattacharya, Jay; Currie, Janet - 2021
We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … capital production function that summarizes available nutrition information. We find that although many youths suffer from …
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The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change
Philipson, Tomas; Posner, Richard A. - 2022
This paper analyzes the factors contributing to the worldwide long-run rise in obesity and the effects of public interventions on its continued growth. The growth of obesity in a population results from an increase in calorie consumption relative to physical activity. Yet in developed countries,...
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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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Estimating the Associations between Snap and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation as well as a survey-based measure. We first document substantial …
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Who Benefits Most from Snap? A Study of Food Security and Food Spending
Deb, Partha - 2017
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...
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Trade in Technology : A Potential Solution to the Food Security Challenges of the 21st Century
Hertel, Thomas W.; Baldos, Uris; Fuglie, Keith - 2022
The recent rise in caloric undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) demonstrates the continued relevance of the Malthusian footrace between food availability and population. Sluggish growth in farm productivity in SSA has brought to the fore the key role of agricultural technology in...
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The Effect of Safety Net Programs on Food Insecurity
Schmidt, Lucie; Shore-Sheppard, Lara D.; Watson, Tara - 2021
Does the safety net reduce food insecurity in families? In this paper we investigate how the structure of benefits for five major safety net programs - TANF, SSI, EITC, food assistance, and Medicaid - affects low food security in families. We build a calculator for the years 2001-2009 to impute...
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