Fighting against hunger: A country-wide intervention and its impact on birth outcomes

Francisco Beltran-Silva

World Development, 2023, vol. 165, issue C

Abstract: In 2013 the Mexican government launched Sin Hambre (SH), a large-scale food assistance policy, with which to fight hunger, and which the government expressly intended to improve nutrition and access to food. This study applies a difference-in-differences approach using timing and regional variations in exposure to evaluate the impact of SH, particularly on average birthweight. Because municipalities were not selected randomly, the approach employs a method proposed by Imai et al. (2021) that improves the confidence to satisfy the parallel trend assumption under staggered adoption. Findings reveal that exposure to SH leads to, at most, moderate impacts on birthweight across various specifications.

Keywords: Birthweight; Food assistance; Hunger; Maternal and child health; Nutrition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H51 I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106202

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