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 …

NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. 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 …), but lower nutritional content per unit of currency, weakening or perhaps even reversing the intended impact of the subsidy …

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …, weakening or perhaps even reversing the intended impact of the subsidy. We analyze data from a randomized program of large price … subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China and find no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it …

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …, weakening or perhaps even reversing the intended impact of the subsidy. We analyze data from a randomized program of large price … subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China and find no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it …

Many developing countries use food price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …, weakening or perhaps even reversing the intended impact of the subsidy. We present data from a randomized program of large price … subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China. We find that the nutritional impact caused by the subsidy was at best …