The Relationship between Food Assistance and Health: A Review of the Literature and Empirical Strategies for Identifying Program Effects

There is a large and growing body of literature on the impact of food assistance programs on body weight and health. We review this literature in the context of an economic model of consumption and time allocations in order to elucidate the multiple pathways between food assistance and health. We th...

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Volume:	33
Main Author:	Chad D. Meyerhoefer Muzhe Yang
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	HOBOKEN Oxford University Press 01.10.2011 WILEY Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
published in:	Applied economic perspectives and policy Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 304 - 344
Data of publication:	20111001
ISSN:	2040-5790 2040-5804
EISSN:	2040-5804
Discipline:	Economics Agriculture
Series:	Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
Subjects:	Obesity Nutrition Electronics benefit transfer Food intake Food security Body weight Children Food consumption Featured Articles Estimators Unobservables treatment effects health Food assistance programs identification Economics Social Sciences Life Sciences & Biomedicine Business & Economics Agriculture Agricultural Economics & Policy Science & Technology treatment effects Food assistance programs C5 identification health Q18 I38 STAMP PARTICIPATION PROPENSITY SCORE BREAKFAST CORRELATED RANDOM-COEFFICIENT SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM BODY-WEIGHT OBESITY REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DESIGNS OVERWEIGHT
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