NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve … the nutrition of the poor. However, subsidizing goods on which households spend a high proportion of their budget can … no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it may have had a negative impact for some households …

"We study the effect of the Food Stamp Program (FSP) on consumption patterns in families headed by low-educated single … mothers in the U.S. using the Consumer Expenditure Surveys for 1994-2004. Our analysis suggests that the food stamp caseload … does not have any statistically significant association with per capita expenditure on food in families headed by low …

food -- impact consumption. Despite the prominence of the theory, there has been little empirical work documenting actual …-level original implementation of the Food Stamp Program in the 1960s and early 1970s. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we … employ difference-in-difference methods to estimate the impact of program availability on food spending, labor supply and …