We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … analysis thus suggests that food price subsidies are likely to affect agriculture markets without impacting nutrition … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption …

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 …

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

provision of adequate diets for young children in the United States. An examination of the Health and Nutrition Examination …

organizations have called for students to spend more time in physical education (PE) classes. This paper is the first to exploit … that certain state regulations are effective in raising the number of minutes during which students are active in PE. Our … results also indicate that additional PE time raises the number of days per week that students report having exercised or …

Using proprietary data from Alibaba, we examine how the 2015 Food Safety Law (FSL) affects e-commerce in China. The FSL … requires most food sellers on e-commerce platforms to obtain a valid, online license for retail food handling. Because the FSL … reputation and more online food sales before FSL tend to display their FSL license earlier on the platform, and buyers are more …

The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) imposed significant changes in the information about calories and …-in-differences method. We compare the change before and after the implementation of NLEA in body weight among those who use labels when food …

inequality that emphasize supply-side factors such as food deserts …