This body of work focuses on understanding the constraints to accessing and choosing safe, nourishing, and satisfying foods that promote health and support all aspects of well-being.

Ongoing

• Whose diet quality is most at risk when food prices rise? A 2-year project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to use the USDA Consumer Food Data Systemassets to understand how consumers diets change in response to food prices, and specifically which sub-populations are more vulnerable in the short- and long-term to rising food prices and specifically in which ways.

  Project dates: January 2023 - February 2025

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Related publications

• Schneider, K., Bellows, A., Downs, Bell, W., Ambikapathi, R., Nordhagen, S., Branca, F., Masters, W., Fanzo, J. “Inequity in access to healthy foods: Synthesis from a multidisciplinary perspective.” GAIN Discussion Paper No. 12. Geneva: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition.

• Schneider, K., Webb, P., Christiaensen, L., & Masters, W. (2023) “Assessing the affordability of nutrient-adequate diets.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. doi:10.1111/ajae.12334 (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper)

  • Data & Replication code

• Schneider, K. (2022) “Nationally representative estimates of the cost of adequate diets, nutrient level drivers, and policy options for households in rural Malawi.” Food Policy, 102275. doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102275

• Schneider, K., Webb, P., Christiaensen, L., & Masters, W. (2021) Assessing diet quality when families share their meals: Evidence from Malawi. Journal of Nutrition nxab287. doi:10.1093/jn/nxab287

  • Data & Replication code

• Schneider, K., Oslund, J., & Liu, T. (2021). The impact of the Community Eligibility Provision on School Meal Participation in Texas. Public Health Nutrition, 1-9. doi:10.1017/S1368980021003712

• Seymour, G., Masuda, Y., Williams, J., Schneider, K. (2019). Household and child nutrition outcomes among the time and income poor in Bangladesh. Global Food Security, (20), 82-92. doi:1016/j.gfs.2019.01.004

• Schneider, K., & Masters, W. A. (2019). Orange Fanta versus orange fruit: A novel measure of nutrition knowledge in Malawi. Maternal & Child Nutrition, 15(1), e12656. doi:10.1111/mcn.12656