Food assistance programs play an important role in meeting the basic needs of low-income households. We consider the complex interactions among food stamps, labor force participation, and food insecurity status of low-income households under different program designs and economic conditions. The...

At the center of the debates on welfare reform is whether the incentives-based systems help poor families move out of poverty into jobs. Recent data from the first Survey of Program Dynamics longitudinal and the 1998 experimental data files allow evaluation of the interaction among the Food...

The fundamental motivation for this study is the need to better understand the interaction among the Food Stamp Program (FSP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and labor force participation under different program design and economic conditions. We use data from the first...

This paper presents evidence on the impact of individual as well as regional characteristics on changes in fat, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on diet’s diversity between 1994 and 2004. The results from a dynamic econometric model suggest that among individual...

This paper integrates theoretical and empirical models to study the rise of human obesity in Russia during the transition from a planned to a market economy. To test our hypotheses we use recent individual-level data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for 1995 and 2004. Estimation...

This study tests hypothesis derived from the theory of rationing using data for Polish households during the transition. The demand system consists of six commodity groups, and virtual prices are derived for the rationed goods. The empirical results are consistent with the theory: larger...

The consumption and welfare changes during the transition in rural Poland are evaluated using the virtual price for the rationed goods in the pre-reform period. The rural households did respond to price and real income changes during the transition. The actual changes in consumption patterns are...