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We study how 3,534 beneficiaries of PROSPERA, Mexico's cash transfer program, smooth food consumption around the transfer payday, an anticipated and transitory income shock. We find that food consumption and food security do not change around the transfer payday, including for recipients with...

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Immigration and Inequality

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Social safety nets for food and nutritional security in India

Narayanan, Sudha; Gerber, Nicolas - 2016

, health and nutrition of beneficiaries. Both programs operate on a large scale and have the capacity to impact the factors …-scale programs on health and nutrition. The evidence that exists suggests largely positive impacts indicating a clear potential to … make these programs more nutrition sensitive not just by incorporating elements that would explicitly address nutritional …

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Implications of food-for-work programs for consumption and production diversity : evidence from the Tigray Region of Ethiopia

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Food-based transfer programs have the potential to change diets or alter basic crop mixes. This study empirically investigates the associations between participating in food-for-work (FFW) programs and the diversity of food consumption and production. Four waves of panel data from the Tigray...

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Does Food Security Influence the Nutritional Status in India? Empirical Evidences From State-Level Cross Sectional Study

Palanisamy, Venkatesh; Vellaichamy, Sangeetha; R, Sendhil; … - 2021

The Indian economy is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. While it achieved self-sufficiency in food production, India ironically also harbours the largest population in the world suffering from malnutrition-. This paper examines the food security status across the Indian states,...

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Free School Meals and Demand for Community Food Resources

Ozturk, Orgul; Pekgun, Pelin; Ruffini, Krista - 2021

Many community organizations provide services similar to government income assistance programs but there is little empirical evidence on how these systems interact. We examine how greater access to government nutritional aid through free school meals affects local food bank utilization by...

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Improving children health and cognition : evidence from school-based nutrition intervention in India

Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018

We present experimental evidence on the impact of delivering double-fortified salt (DFS), salt fortified with iron and iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "mid-day meal" on anemia, cognition, and math and reading scores of primary school children. We conducted a field...

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Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?

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Many developing countries use food price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …

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The Monthly Food Stamp Cycle : Shopping Frequency and Food Intake Decisions in an Endogenous Switching Regression Framework

Wilde, Parke E.; Ranney, Christine K. - 2010

Mean food spending by food stamp households peaks sharply in the first three days after benefits are received. For those who conduct major grocery shopping trips only once per month (42% of all food stamp households), mean food energy intake drops significantly by the fourth week of the month....

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Synergies in Social Protection : Impacts of India’s MGNREGA and Public Distribution System on the Health and Nutrition of Women and Children

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’s nutrition or health, even though this is not their main objective. At the same time, the effects are heterogeneous, confirming …

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