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A Quantile Decomposition of Household's Food Security in India by Caste
Bhuyan, Biswabhusan; Sahoo, Bimal Kishore; Suar, Damodar - 2018
This paper examined food security differentials between forwarding and backward castes in rural and urban India using Oaxaca-quantile type decomposition analysis. National sample survey data on consumer expenditure of 2004-05, 2009-10, and 2011-12 were used for analysis. Log ratio of per-capita...
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Consumption peer effects and utility needs in India
Lewbel, Arthur; Norris, Samuel; Pendakur, Krishna; Qu, Xi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 3, pp. 1257-1295
inequality‐neutral social welfare, by reducing peer consumption externalities. We show welfare gains of billions of dollars per …
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Social Safety Nets and Nutrient Deprivation: An Analysis of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program and the Public Distribution System in India
Jha, Raghbendra; Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
Using primary data collected during 2007-08 we examine the nutritional status with respect to the two macronutrients (calories and protein) as well as various micronutrients of rural households in three Indian states: Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. We find that, by and large, there...
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Impacts of double-fortified salt on anemia and cognition: four-year follow-up evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India
Grafenstein, Liza von; Kumar, Abhijeet; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2021
experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition …
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The Indian enigma revisited
Grafenstein, Liza von; Klasen, Stephan; Hoddinott, John - 2022
This paper re-enters the contested discussion surrounding the Indian Enigma, the high prevalence of chronic undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the worse treatment of higher birth order children,...
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Impacts of double-fortified salt on anemia and cognition: four-year follow-up evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India
Grafenstein, Liza von; Kumar, Abhijeet; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2021
experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597766
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Food Preference and Nutrition in India
Paul, Sourabh - 2015
I present some estimates for India that demonstrate that structural changes in the impact of income on food demand have been significant factors driving the changes in dietary patterns in this rapidly growing economy. A Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System is estimated for six food groups. The...
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Diets, Nutrition and Poverty : The Indian Experience
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - 2014
deprivation and poverty, and argue against delinking of the two. We analyse poverty nutrition traps, whether child undernutrition …
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Livelihood diversification and nutrition in the Indian rural-urban interface
Katiganere Purushotham, Anjali; Steinhübel, Linda - 2024
. While such diversification is often beneficial for household incomes, the consequences for household nutrition are less … livelihood diversification affects nutrition is still scarce. To address this gap, we first develop a conceptual framework that … market access in explaining household nutrition. Then, we use panel data from the rural-urban interface (RUI) of Bangalore in …
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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation
Janssens, Wendy - 2005
Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
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