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Safety Net Against Hunger? The Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Food Insecurity
Lenhart, Otto - 2019
This study examines the relationship between the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and food insecurity for low-income households. While previous work has established that the EITC can provide health benefits, less is known about the underlying mechanisms through which this occurs. Using the 2009...
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Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?
Jensen, Robert T.; Miller, Nolan H. - 2014
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 create large wealth effects. Consumers may then substitute towards foods with higher...
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Chapter 40 Food security and food assistance programs
Barrett, Christopher B. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part B, …, (pp. 2103-2190). 2002
Widespread hunger and malnutrition persist today despite considerable growth in per capita food availability. This has prompted an evolving conceptualization of food security and of mechanisms to attain and maintain food security. This chapter discusses both food security and food assistance...
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Policies for a better-fed world
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2015
transfers, have either been tried or put in place in different countries in order to fight under-nutrition. A number of …
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Learning and behavioral spillovers of nutritional information
Prakarsh Singh - 2016
This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three groups, a treatment group, a neighboring spillover group, and a non-adjacent pure control group. Mothers of children (aged 3-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers are...
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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India : Public Works Versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra - 2011
public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and … undernutrition were significantly higher for households with access to PDS than for those without, although PDS had significant …
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Learning and Behavioral Spillovers of Nutritional Information
Singh, Prakarsh - 2016
This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three groups, a treatment group, a neighboring spillover group, and a non-adjacent pure control group. Mothers of children (aged 3-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers are...
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Behavior change for early childhood nutrition : effectiveness of health worker training depends on maternal information in a randomized control trial
Prakarsh Singh; Masters, William Alan - 2016
We carry out a randomized control trial to test for interaction effects between training state-employed caregivers and providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are supposed to provide a mid-day meal and also advise...
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Learning and Behavioral Spillovers of a Nutritional Information Campaign
Singh, Prakarsh - 2013
This paper provides evidence for spillovers in learning and behavior within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. In a controlled experiment, mothers of children (aged 3-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers were provided recipe books to lower their price per calorie. Spillovers to...
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Explaining cross-state disparities in child nutrition in Rural India
Cavatorta, Elisa; Shankar, Bhavani; Flores-Martinez, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 76 (2015), pp. 216-237
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