We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … subsidy to expenditures on non-food items. Estimates of the price effect of food price subsidy on the three measures of …

reports that there might be a low impact of these programs on health outcomes. The amount of the subsidy (higher amounts tend …

shoppers a choice over the type of subsidy they receive and introducing a waiting period before the shopping trip to prompt …, increasing healthy purchases by 61% relative to a choice-less subsidy restricted to healthy food, and 199% relative to an un …