The distribution of income within the household is found to matter for the allocation of resources towards nutrition. Rural Mexican households do not pool income, nor do they attain a Pareto-efficient allocation of resources. In contrast to what is commonly done in the literature, I do not...

Individual means testing can impose burdens on the targeted group that reduce take-up, while community (or place-based) means testing may lead to reduced efficiency in service delivery. I study the effect of a community means-tested program, the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), on food...

While economic growth in many low- and middle-income (LMICs) has led to the reduction of poverty and undernutrition, some of these LMICs are undergoing a simultaneous increase in overnutrition and micronutrient deficiency. Urbanization is one of the widely attributed factors for this nutrition...

We use the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) III to examine the effect of the availability of the school breakfast program (SBP). Our work builds on previous research in four ways: First, we develop a transparent difference-in-differences strategy to account for...