Robert Paarlberg,Dariush Mozaffarian,Renata Micha
Robert Paarlberg
Taxes to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) such as soda drinks have been endorsed by the World Health Organization and are now in place in France, Hungary, and Mexico, and scheduled for Portugal, South Africa, and G...
Viewpoint: High-frequency phone surveys on COVID-19: Good practices, open questions [0.03%]
观点：关于COVID-19的高频手机调查：良好做法与开放性问题
Alberto Zezza,Antonio Martuscelli,Philip Wollburg et al.
Alberto Zezza et al.
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face survey data collection efforts came to a halt due to lockdowns, limitations on mobility and social distancing requirements. What followed was a surge in phone surveys to fulfill rap...
Evidence of a health risk 'signalling effect' following the introduction of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax [0.03%]
税收开征含糖饮料税的健康风险预警证据
Miriam Alvarado,Tarra L Penney,Nigel Unwin et al.
Miriam Alvarado et al.
Consuming sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been associated with increased rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes, making SSBs an increasingly popular target for taxation. In addition to changing prices, the introduction of an SSB tax may ...
Could the new dairy policy affect milk allocation to infants in Kenya? A best-worst scaling approach [0.03%]
新的乳品政策会否影响肯尼亚婴儿的配方奶粉分配？一种最佳- worst_scaling（最差）方法的评估
Emmanuel Muunda,Nadhem Mtimet,Franziska Schneider et al.
Emmanuel Muunda et al.
Milk is an important food item in the diet of Kenyans, especially infants. During the last two decades, the dairy sector in Kenya has witnessed important growth in production and improvements in milk quality. The informal marketing channel ...
Seasonal time trade-offs and nutrition outcomes for women in agriculture: Evidence from rural India [0.03%]
季节性时间补偿对农业女性的营养状况影响——来自印度农村地区的证据
Vidya Vemireddy,Prabhu L Pingali
Vidya Vemireddy
Women in agriculture are involved in agricultural activities and are solely responsible for household-level unpaid work. They face severe time trade-offs between agricultural and household activities across crop seasons. Recent literature s...
Revisiting the Relationship between WIC Participation and Breastfeeding among Low-Income Children in the U.S. after the 2009 WIC Food Package Revision [0.03%]
美国2009年WIC食品包调整后重新审视低收入儿童WIC参与与母乳喂养之间的关系
Qi Zhang,Chun Chen,Hong Xue et al.
Qi Zhang et al.
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides breastfeeding support and free formula to low-income participating infants in the U.S. Literature has consistently documented worse breastfeeding out...
Do tradeoffs among dimensions of women's empowerment and nutrition outcomes exist? Evidence from six countries in Africa and Asia [0.03%]
女性赋权与营养结果各维度间的权衡关系存在吗？来自非洲和亚洲六国的证据
Agnes R Quisumbing,Kathryn Sproule,Elena M Martinez et al.
Agnes R Quisumbing et al.
Although women's empowerment and gender equality are often linked with better maternal and child nutrition outcomes, recent systematic reviews find inconclusive evidence. This paper applies a comparable methodology to data on the Women's Em...
Tina L Saitone,K Aleks Schaefer,Daniel P Scheitrum
Tina L Saitone
In this paper, we investigate the extent to which the presence of a large meatpacking (i.e., beef, pork, and broiler chicken) plant has affected county-level COVID-19 transmission dynamics. We find that-within 150 days after emergence of CO...
Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries [0.03%]
零售价格下的营养膳食的成本与可负担性：177个国家的证据
Yan Bai,Robel Alemu,Steven A Block et al.
Yan Bai et al.
Many policies and programs aim to bring nutritious diets within reach of the poor. This paper uses retail prices and nutrient composition for 671 foods and beverages to compute the daily cost of essential nutrients required for an active an...
Kalyani Raghunathan,Derek Headey,Anna Herforth
Kalyani Raghunathan
In 2015-16 some 38% of preschool children in India were stunted, 21% wasted, and more than half of Indian mothers and young children were anemic. Though widely studied, surprisingly little research on malnutrition in India explores the role...