Food Price Subsidies and Nutrition: Evidence from State Reforms to India’s Public Distribution System

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...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Economic development and cultural change 2017-10, Vol.66 (1), p.55-90
Hauptverfasser:	KRISHNAMURTHY, PRASAD, PATHANIA, VIKRAM, TANDON, SHARAD
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Availability Diet Food Food prices Government subsidies Households Nutrition Reforms Rice Subsidies
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