- Title
- The Indian Public Distribution System as Provider of Food Security: Evidence from Child Anthropometry in Andhra Pradesh
- Author(s)
- Alessandro Tarozzi Alessandro Tarozzi (Princeton University)
- Abstract
- We study whether a sudden increase of the price of rice supplied by the Indian Public Distribution System in Andhra Pradesh, a large Indian state, had a negative impact on child weight. After the price increase, the Indian National Family Health Survey started measuring weight in a sample of children in Andhra Pradesh. The data collection continued for several months, so that children measured later in the survey lived for a longer period of time in a less favorable price regime. We study whether this implied a worsening of their nutritional status as measured by weight, but we do not find evidence supporting this hypothesis.
- Creation Date
- 2002-05
- Section URL ID
- RPDS
- Paper Number
- Tarozzi_The_Indian_Public_Distribution_System_as_provider_of_food_security_EER.pdf
- URL
- https://rpds.princeton.edu/sites/rpds/files/media/tarozzi_the_indian_public_distribution_system_as_provider_of_food_security_eer.pdf
- File Function
- Jel
- O13, Q18
- Keyword(s)
- India
- Suppress
- false
- Series
- 5