quality of household food purchases using the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and propensity … score matching. A healthy purchasing index (HPI) is used to measure nutritional quality of household food purchases. WIC … foods explain the improvement in quality of food purchases, not self-selection of more nutrition-conscious households into …

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 … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …

of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by family type, holding constant household size, age composition and … food. We cannot reject the hypothesis that the effect of replacing a biological child with a non- biological child is the … disaggregate food consumption more finely, we find that when a child's biological mother is the head or spouse of the head of …

specification of a positive theory for why agents fail to optimize with respect to tax policies …