RASKIN in 1998 to moderate the shocks of food price inflation and reduced employment to poor households. The program has been … continued since then with an objective to provide food security to poor families and is currently the largest in-kind transfer …-2014, this paper examines the impact of RASKIN on children's health status. Using the difference-in-difference estimator, we find …

diversification strategies on household welfare and health outcomes (i.e. child nutrition) for both rural and urban dwellers. Thus …

health benefits, such as decreased diarrhea incidence of in under-five children, improved child anthropometrics stunting …We investigated the impacts of piped water on water quality, sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes in marginalized … group of households to identify gains in water-sanitation, hygiene and health outcomes. We found that the BMDA piped water …

focuses on the origins and development of health. This communication, based on a salutogenic approach, will attempt to show … increases an individual's capacity to remain in good health when faced with stressful events. METHOD: The analysis is based on … 2002 French Health and Health Care Survey, carried out by INSEE, the Institute of Statistic and Economic Studies. Several …

Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the … effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …

Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the … effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …

This article investigates the effect of fast-food availability on childhood weight outcomes by gender, race, and … location. We use a novel identification strategy based on changes in fast-food exposure along the route between the home and … height and weight for public school students in Arkansas, we find no evidence that changes in fast-food exposure are …

This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on … household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current … Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow geographic identifiers available in the restricted version of these data …