Food Price Subsidies and Nutrition
Evidence from State Reforms to India's Public Distribution System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4362075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Prasad Krishnamurthy (0009-0003-3960-6018, University of California, Berkeley), Vikram Pathania (University of Sussex), Sharad Tandon (0009-0004-7166-5955) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-90 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/694033 |
| OpenAlex | W3123742620 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 20 |
We investigate whether food price subsidies affect household nutrition using a dramatic expansion of the availability of subsidized rice in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh in the early 2000s. Households in Chhattisgarh improved their nutritional intake relative to households in districts bordering the state as the availability of subsidized rice expanded. This increase is driven by households most likely to be eligible for rice subsidies, and we do not find evidence that households least likely to be eligible changed their diet. These results differ from recent studies suggesting that food subsidies may have little effect on nutrition
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · Consumption (sociology) · Distribution (mathematics) · Economics · Food consumption · Food policy · Food security · Geography · Market economy · Public distribution system · Public economics · State (computer science) · Subsidy · Agricultural risk and resilience · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
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| Citations per year | 0.78 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |