Access Statistics for Michele Ver Ploeg

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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences: Report to Congress 0 0 1 23 2 8 45 313
Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Updated Estimates of Distance to Supermarkets Using 2010 Data 0 0 0 23 0 9 19 140
Can Food Stamps Do More to Improve Food Choices? An Economic Perspective 0 0 1 44 0 5 8 220
Can Food Stamps Do More to Improve Food Choices? An Economic Perspectives--Overview: Can Food Stamps Do More To Improve Food Choices? 0 0 1 23 0 2 8 122
Changing Participation in Food Assistance Programs Among Low-Income Children After Welfare Reform 0 0 1 14 0 3 8 81
Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts 0 1 6 47 2 11 43 416
Comparing National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) Data With Other National Food Surveys’ Data 0 0 0 51 3 9 14 221
Comparing the relationship between food store access and dietary health across different measures of food access 0 0 0 13 1 3 4 31
Did the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Increase in SNAP Benefits Reduce the Impact of Food Deserts? 0 0 0 29 0 5 11 217
Do Obese and Nonobese Consumers Respond Differently to Price Changes? Implications of Preference Heterogeneity for Using Food Taxes and Subsidies to Reduce Obesity 0 0 0 9 1 11 15 43
Do SNAP Beneficiaries Pay Different Prices throughout the Benefit Month? 0 0 0 19 1 4 7 48
Does a Nutritious Diet Cost More in Food Deserts? 0 0 3 75 1 6 12 181
Does a Nutritious Diet Cost More in Food Deserts? 0 0 0 38 1 6 12 102
Enhanced Data and Methods for Estimating Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food for Population Characteristics 0 0 0 13 1 3 5 52
Food Stamps and Obesity: What Do We Know? 0 0 1 129 1 10 11 815
Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs and Obesity: 1976-2002 0 0 0 51 1 4 6 301
How do SNAP participation, food access and food prices affect nutritional quality of food purchases? An analysis of FoodAPS data 0 0 0 36 0 6 7 81
Is it hot in here or is it your food choices? Examining the carbon footprint of U.S. household food spending and opportunities for emission mitigation strategies through changes in food expenditures 0 0 0 45 0 3 9 64
Low-Income and Low-Supermarket-Access Census Tracts, 2010-2015 0 0 1 15 0 1 4 97
Nutritional Quality of Foods Acquired by Americans: Findings From USDA's National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey 0 0 1 15 1 3 10 59
Retail Wastelands: Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts 0 0 0 52 3 5 12 241
SNAP and Diet Quality: An Instrumental Variables Approach 0 0 0 53 0 4 8 233
Super Stores’ Impact on the Availability of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Approved Stores 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 9
Super Stores’ Impact on the Availability of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Approved Stores 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 6
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation Leads to Modest Changes in Diet Quality 0 0 0 18 0 1 7 83
The Impact of Super Center Stores on the Availability of SNAP-approved stores 0 0 1 6 2 4 8 38
The Influence of Food Store Access on Grocery Shopping and Food Spending 0 0 2 15 0 3 8 53
The Location and Timing of SNAP Purchases 0 0 1 30 0 5 11 70
The Retailer Choice of SNAP Participants for Fill-In Purchases 0 0 1 4 0 1 10 24
Understanding Low-Income and Low-Access Census Tracts Across the Nation: Subnational and Subpopulation Estimates of Access to Healthy Food 7 8 8 16 13 18 30 70
Utilizing the USDA’s National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey to Calculate a Household-Level Food Environment Measure 0 0 0 1 2 15 19 23
WIC and the Battle Against Childhood Overweight 0 0 0 27 1 6 6 115
Where Do Americans Usually Shop for Food and How Do They Travel To Get There? Initial Findings from the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey 0 0 1 25 1 9 14 170
Total Working Papers 7 9 30 961 38 186 396 4,739


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Household Food Choices 0 0 1 103 2 5 22 513
Access to Affordable, Nutritious Food Is Limited in “Food Deserts” 0 1 1 16 1 6 17 138
An Alternative to Developing Stores in Food Deserts: Can Changes in SNAP Benefits Make a Difference? 0 0 1 17 0 7 13 95
An Alternative to Developing Stores in Food Deserts: Can Changes in SNAP Benefits Make a Difference? 0 0 0 4 0 5 10 49
An Evaluation of Food Deserts in America 0 0 0 12 1 3 6 75
Changes in the propensity of overweight US women to under-assess their body weight status 0 0 0 12 0 1 2 63
Children from disrupted families as adults: family structure, college attendance and college completion 0 0 0 60 0 5 6 226
Different Measures of Food Access Inform Different Solutions 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 20
Distance to Grocery Stores and Vehicle Access Influence Food Spending by Low-Income Households at Convenience Stores 0 0 0 1 1 6 7 12
Do Benefits of U.S. Food Assistance Programs for Children Spillover to Older Children in the Same Household? 0 1 1 32 0 8 12 140
Do SNAP Households Pay Different Prices throughout the Benefit Month? 0 0 0 11 0 2 12 32
Do obese and nonobese consumers respond differently to price changes? Implications of preference heterogeneity for obesity‐oriented food taxes and subsidies 1 1 4 5 3 13 24 34
Does a nutritious diet cost more in food deserts? 0 0 1 11 0 5 10 64
ERS’s Updated Food Access Research Atlas Shows an Increase in Low-Income and Low-Supermarket Access Areas in 2015 0 0 0 1 0 5 7 25
Examining the role of the excess shelter deduction in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit formula 0 0 0 2 0 2 8 11
Food Environment, Food Store Access, Consumer Behavior, and Diet 0 0 0 8 0 3 9 93
Food Stamps and Obesity: Ironic Twist or Complex Puzzle? 0 0 0 53 2 4 4 162
Food Stamps and Obesity: What We Know and What It Means 0 0 0 22 1 5 7 75
Food deserts and diet-related health outcomes of the elderly 0 0 4 41 0 2 16 238
Geographic Boundary Definitions and the Robustness of Common Food Retail Environment Measures 0 0 2 12 0 4 8 26
How do food retail choices vary within and between food retail environments? 0 0 1 16 3 8 18 114
Mapping Food Deserts in the U.S 0 0 0 12 1 5 12 97
Measuring Food Access and Food Deserts for Policy Purposes 0 0 3 27 0 4 10 108
Nutritional quality of retail food purchases is not associated with participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for nutrition-oriented households 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 9
Population Density, Poverty, and Food Retail Access in the United States: An Empirical Approach 0 1 2 59 1 11 24 231
Poverty Measurement: Orshansky's Original Measures and the Development of Alternatives 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 15
Poverty Measurement: Orshansky's Original Measures and the Development of Alternatives * 0 0 0 18 0 2 6 83
Prices Play Greater Role Than Access in Food-Purchase Decisions for SNAP Households 0 0 0 0 0 6 7 26
Recent Evidence on the Effects of Food Store Access on Food Choice and Diet Quality 0 0 2 28 0 2 9 142
Restricting Sugar-Sweetened Beverages From SNAP Purchases Not Likely To Lower Consumption 0 0 0 6 0 7 9 43
SNAP Benefits Alleviate the Intensity and Incidence of Poverty 0 0 0 19 1 5 9 86
The Impact of Food Deserts on Food Insufficiency and SNAP Participation among the Elderly 0 0 1 20 1 8 17 89
The Quality of the Food Retail Environment When Consumers May Be Mobile 0 0 0 2 0 3 15 25
The roles of food prices and food access in determining food purchases of low-income households 0 1 1 84 2 12 26 328
The vanishing weight gap: Trends in obesity among adult food stamp participants (US) (1976-2002) 0 0 0 46 1 4 5 156
U.S. Shoppers’ Access to Multiple Food Stores Varies by Region 0 0 0 4 0 5 9 32
USDA’s Food Assistance Programs: Legacies of the War on Poverty 0 0 0 2 0 3 6 23
Unemployment Insurance and USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Together Cushioned the Great Recession 0 0 0 1 0 4 7 16
Variety-Adjusted Food Prices Are Slightly Higher in Census Tracts Where Households Have Limited Access to a Supermarket 0 0 2 4 0 4 9 19
WIC Not Linked to Overweight in Children 0 0 0 2 0 3 4 27
Total Journal Articles 1 5 27 775 23 193 415 3,760


Statistics updated 2026-04-09