How much do calorie requirements vary across households and how do they affect food consumption patterns? Since caloric … intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …

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

of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by family type, holding constant household size, age composition and … food. We cannot reject the hypothesis that the effect of replacing a biological child with a non- biological child is the … disaggregate food consumption more finely, we find that when a child's biological mother is the head or spouse of the head of …

quality of household food purchases using the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and propensity … score matching. A healthy purchasing index (HPI) is used to measure nutritional quality of household food purchases. WIC … foods explain the improvement in quality of food purchases, not self-selection of more nutrition-conscious households into …

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 … in poor households. Further, our analysis shows that households allocated some of the increase in income from food price …

We study the effect of the Food Stamp Program (FSP) on consumption patterns in families headed by low-educated single … mothers in the U.S. using the Consumer Expenditure Surveys for 1994-2004. Our analysis suggests that the food stamp caseload … does not have any statistically significant association with per capita expenditure on food in families headed by low …

Previous research has used survey and diary data to carefully document that Food Stamp recipients decrease their … expenditures and consumption of food throughout the benefit month, the beginning of which is defined by the date on which benefits … for why food consumption cycles. Using detailed grocery store scanner data we ask 1) whether cycling is due to a desire …

significantly less on food and total consumption, after controlling for income, wealth, employment, demographics, and macro …

similar non-chefs. We extend our analysis to cover 50 retail health categories and 241 food and drink categories. The results …, and a much smaller share for most food and drink products. We tie our estimates together using a stylized model of demand …