This paper explores the effects of relative food prices on body weight and body fat over time in China. We study a … effect does not always hold for body weight. These findings suggest that changes in food consumption patterns induced by … varying food prices can increase percentage body fat to risky levels even without substantial weight gain. In addition, food …

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

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 …

areas that bear on the Medicare problem: the number of the elderly, their health status, use of medical care, labor force … expectancy at age 65; 2) a very large increase since 1976 in real per capita health care expenditures on the elderly relative to … a sharp increase in relative income of the elderly since 1965.The paper concludes by raising questions about the need to …

This paper uses matched data on the elderly and their children to study the provision of time by children to the … elderly. It develops a Tobit model as well as a structural model to analyze the determinants of this decision. The main …