| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w19404
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 19404
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| How Consumer Price Subsidies affect Nutrition |
| Neeraj Kaushal; Felix Muchomba
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| 发表日期 | 2013-09-05
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| 出版年 | 2013
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | 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 patterns in favor of the subsidized grains and certain more expensive sources of calorie, and lowered consumption of coarse grains that are cheaper, yet taste-wise, inferior sources of nutrition, but had no effect on calorie, protein and fat intake in poor households. Further, our analysis shows that households allocated some of the increase in income from food price subsidy to expenditures on non-food items. Estimates of the price effect of food price subsidy on the three measures of nutrition are also negligible. We find evidence that the decline in the price of wheat and rice, changed consumption patterns toward increased consumption of wheat and rice and lower consumption of coarse grains, the unsubsidized staple food. Our analysis thus suggests that food price subsidies are likely to affect agriculture markets without impacting nutrition. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
; Poverty and Wellbeing
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19404
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577079
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Neeraj Kaushal,Felix Muchomba. How Consumer Price Subsidies affect Nutrition. 2013.
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