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 …

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

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 … patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a …

We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In … food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and … increasingly valuable surplus as their real wages fall. In regions without crop agriculture, higher food prices increase both …

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

(0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD), and health (0.2 SD). These effects grow for the first seven years …

Managing the outbreak of COVID-19 in India constitutes an unprecedented health emergency in one of the largest and most … diverse nations in the world. On May 4, 2020, India started the process of releasing its population from a national lockdown …

Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the … UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate …