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intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption …
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Individuals that consume different baskets of goods are differentially affected by relative price changes caused by international trade. We develop a methodology to measure the unequal gains from trade across consumers within countries. The approach requires data on aggregate expenditures and...
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undermined nutrition by displacing local food production. Consistent with this hypothesis, a difference-in-differences estimation …
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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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According to conventional income measures, nineteenth century American and British industrial workers were two to four times as wealthy as poor people in developing countries today. Surprisingly, however, today's poor are less hungry than yesterday's wealthy industrial workers. I estimate the...
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nutrition trap (but are not necessarily overweight) are at increased risk of metabolic disease. The model and the underlying …
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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 … 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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Worldwide, extreme poverty is often concentrated in spaces where people and property are not safe enough to sustain …
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family's health, nutrition, and finances. However, this does not increase overall adoption of health-promoting behaviors or …
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higher undernutrition tend to have higher shares of undernourished individuals in non-poor households. The results are …
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