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

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 …

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 …

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 …

, 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 …

Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the … UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate …

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 …