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

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 …

meaningful impact on grocery spending for households with children, with monthly food purchases declining by about $11, or 5 … show evidence that the composition of food purchases changes, with low income households experiencing an increase in the … dietary quality of their food purchases by about 3 percent after CEP. Finally, we show CEP exposure is associated with an 11 …

This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on food insecurity in the United States, using data from the … instrumental variable to address the endogeneity of vaccination decision. We find that vaccination had a substantial impact on food … hardship by reducing the likelihood of food insecurity by 24%, with even stronger effects among minority and financially …

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 …

I use changes in immigrant eligibility for food stamps under the 1996 federal law and heterogeneous state responses to … set up a natural experiment research design to study the effect of food stamps on Body Mass Index (BMI) of adults in … immigrant families. I find that in the post-1996 period food stamps use by foreign-born unmarried mothers with a high school or …

-sum transfers are not necessarily superior to distortionary trade policy. We develop this argument in the context of food export …

distribution of real income; (ii) whether the country's largest antipoverty program, SNAP ("food stamps"), helped do so. An …

Malthusian footrace between food availability and population. Sluggish growth in farm productivity in SSA has brought to the fore … the key role of agricultural technology in alleviating future food insecurity. We develop a model of technology, food … security and international trade with three distinct channels for technology reduce food insecurity in SSA. The first is via …