Food insecurity is experienced by millions of Americans and has increased dramatically in
recent years. Due to its prevalence and many demonstrated negative health consequences, …

The literature assessing the efficacy of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),
formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, has long puzzled over positive associations …

Previous research has estimated that food insecure children are more likely to suffer from a
wide array of negative health outcomes than food secure children, leading many to claim that …

A variety of cytokines, lymphokines and growth factors functionsby interacting with receptors
that are members of the cytokine receptor superfamily. These receptors share extracellular …

We analyze the incidence of ad valorem and unit excise taxes in an oligopolistic industry with
differentiated products and price-setting (Bertrand) firms. Both taxes may be passed on to …

Children in households reporting the receipt of free or reduced-price school meals through
the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) are more likely to have negative health …

Two novel human β-chemokines, Ckβ-8 or myeloid progenitor inhibitory factor 1 (MPIF-1),
and Ckβ-6 or MPIF-2, were discovered as part of a large scale cDNA sequencing effort. The …

Measurement error in health and disability status has been widely accepted as a central
problem in social science research. Long-standing debates about the prevalence of disability, …

A measure of "true" disability is constructed as a continuous index of unobserved work limitation
using information from the Health and Retirement Study. Estimates from a simultaneous …

This paper considers the relative efficiency of ad valorem and unit taxes in imperfectly
competitive markets. We provide a simple proof that ad valorem taxes are welfare-superior to unit …