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The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) imposed significant changes in the information about calories and …
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nutrition programs may be an effective way to combat both nutritional deficiencies and excess consumption among children and …
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We study the causes of "nutritional inequality": why the wealthy tend to eat more healthfully than the poor in the U.S. Using event study designs exploiting supermarket entry and households' moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments have meaningful effects on...
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The ongoing debate about the economic causes of obesity has focused on the changing relative prices of diet and exercise. This paper uses a model that explicitly includes time and spatially varying community-level urbanicity and price measures as instruments to obtain statistically correct...
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In The Changing Body (Cambridge University Press and NBER, 2011), the authors presented a series of estimates showing the number of calories available for human consumption in England and Wales at various points in time between 1700 and 1909/13. The current paper corrects an error in those...
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insecurity. We also find that maternal depression increases the likelihood of reliance on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance … Program; Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; Medicaid; and the Temporary Assistance to Needy …
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Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), we estimate our BGRM for responses to the 10 adult core Food Security … incorporating an additional continuous variable, the Healthy Eating Index (HEI), into the model, capturing nutrition quality and … measuring food security and other latent traits requiring a diverse range of variable types like nutrition security …
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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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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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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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