The Indian Public Distribution System as Provider of Food Security: Evidence from Child Anthropometry in Andhra Pradesh

Alessandro Tarozzi

No 185, Working Papers from Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Research Program in Development Studies.

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.

Keywords: India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-05
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