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Marvin is a contract hog farmer in Iowa. He owns his land, his barn, his tractor, and his animal crates. He has seen profits drop steadily for the last twenty years and feels trapped. Josh is a dairy farmer on a cooperative in Massachusetts. He doesn't own his cows, his land, his seed, or even...
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(BMI) are now widely accepted measures that represent cumulative and current net nutrition in development studies. However …, as the ratio of weight to height, BMI does not fully isolate the effects of current net nutrition. After controlling for … height as a measure for current net nutrition, this study uses the weight of a sample of international men in US prisons …
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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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