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Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …
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undermined nutrition by displacing local food production. Consistent with this hypothesis, a difference-in-differences estimation … shows that after the arrival of the boll weevil, food production in affected counties rose while cotton production and …
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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 …
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assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely … higher undernutrition tend to have higher shares of undernourished individuals in non-poor households. The results are …
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biological mechanism, which are validated with micro-data from India, Indonesia and Ghana can jointly explain inter …-regional (Asia-Africa) differences in nutritional status and the prevalence of diabetes …
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promotes protective risk mitigation behaviors early in the COVID-19 pandemic across four African countries (Ghana, Malawi … provision of health information, likely reduced the severity of the pandemic in Africa but was not a panacea …
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large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last …-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville retail and food service workers with young children (58 percent working in …
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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 …
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Developing countries are characterized by frictions that impede the mobility of workers across occupations and space. We disentangle the role of insecure property rights from other labor mobility frictions for the reallocation of labor from agriculture to non-agriculture and from rural to urban...
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This paper examines the impact of temperature changes on rural-urban migration using a 56km×56km grid cell level dataset covering the whole world at 10-year frequency during the period 1970-2000. We find that rising temperatures reduce rural-urban migration in poor countries and increase such...
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