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Food Policy in a Warming World
Hsiao, Allan; Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Do governments systematically intervene in agricultural markets in response to climate shocks? If so, what are the aggregate and distributional consequences? We construct a global dataset of agricultural policies and extreme heat exposure by country and crop since 1980. We find that extreme heat...
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The Child and Adult Care Food Program : Who is Served and What are Their Nutritional Outcomes?
Gordon, Rachel A. - 2010
This paper addresses three basic questions about an under-studied food subsidy program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who participate differ from those who do not...
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Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?
Jensen, Robert T. - 2010
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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Reassessing the WIC Effect : Evidence from the Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System
Racine, Andrew D. - 2007
Recent analyses differ on how effective the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC …) is at improving infant health. We use data from nine states that participate in the Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance …
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How Consumer Price Subsidies affect Nutrition
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2013
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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The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers to Agricultural Households
Aggarwal, Shilpa; Aker, Jenny C.; Jeong, Dahyeon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
While cash transfers will tautologically increase contemporaneous consumption, it is unclear whether these gains will persist, especially in rural agricultural settings with limited productive investment opportunities. Using bi-monthly survey data from recipients of a large, unconditional cash...
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Food Stamps and America’s Poorest
Jolliffe, Dean - 2019
The paper provides the first assessment of: (i) America's progress in lifting the lower bound--the floor--of the distribution of real income; (ii) whether the country's largest antipoverty program, SNAP ("food stamps"), helped do so. An operational method of estimating the floor is implemented on...
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Trade in Technology : A Potential Solution to the Food Security Challenges of the 21st Century
Hertel, Thomas W. - 2020
The recent rise in caloric undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) demonstrates the continued relevance of the 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...
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Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation
Courtemanche, Charles J. - 2018
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation as well as a survey-based measure. We first document substantial …
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The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases : Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision
Marcus, Michelle M.; Yewell, Katherine G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We find evidence that exposure to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) had a meaningful impact on grocery spending for households with children, with monthly food purchases declining by about $11, or 5 percent. For households in zip codes with higher...
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