Improving food security at the household level is very crucial in India as here many people are suffering from persistent hunger and malnutrition. In India, mounting pressure of population, adverse threats of climate change, fragmented land holding, high input cost etc. are very important which...

India’s largest food security programme i.e. Public Distribution System (PDS) is being governed and regulated by Public Distribution System (Control) order, 2001 which was subsequently amended in the years 2004 and 2015. In 2015 it transformed into Targeted Public Distribution System (Control)...

Objective: Debit card payment systems are known to induce more frivolous purchases in adults, but their impact on children is unknown. Design and Methods: Using a national survey of 2,314 public school students in the United States, we compare food purchases in schools with debit-only systems to...

We use a novel retail panel with detailed transaction records to study the effect of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on household spending. We use administrative data to motivate three approaches to causal inference. The marginal propensity to consume SNAP-eligible food...