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 …

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

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 …

I use changes in immigrant eligibility for food stamps under the 1996 federal law and heterogeneous state responses to … set up a natural experiment research design to study the effect of food stamps on Body Mass Index (BMI) of adults in … immigrant families. I find that in the post-1996 period food stamps use by foreign-born unmarried mothers with a high school or …

distribution of real income; (ii) whether the country's largest antipoverty program, SNAP (“food stamps”), helped do so. An …

associations between SNAP and food insecurity, obesity, and the Healthy Eating Index. These results serve as a cautionary tale …

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 …

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 alleviating future food insecurity. We develop a model of technology, food … security and international trade with three distinct channels for technology reduce food insecurity in SSA. The first is via …

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 … suggest that each $1000 in cash or food benefits actually received reduces the incidence of low food security by 4 percentage …