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 …

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

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …

Healthy food choices are a canonical example used to illustrate the importance of time preferences in behavioral … food choice, capturing a number of behaviors consistent with self-control problems, which provides direct evidence for the …

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

, we use a novel data set which collects detailed food diaries for a large cross-section of U.S. households. We show that … despite the decline in food expenditures, neither the quantity nor the quality of food intake deteriorates with retirement …

consuming more calories. The increase in food consumption is itself the result of technological innovations which made it … possible for food to be mass prepared far from the point of consumption, and consumed with lower time costs of preparation and …

one aspect of childhood obesity: food choice and consumption. Using a field experiment where we include more than 1 … (loss versus gain) matters. While incentives work, we find that educational messaging alone has little influence on food … important influence on food choice. For policymakers, our findings show the power of using incentives to combat childhood …

taboos for particular foods. One natural question to ask is whether such food cultures matter in an economic sense. In … inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional …