Calorie Elasticities with Income Dynamics: Evidence from the Literature

Zhou, De; Yu, Xiaohua

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“…When it comes to cereal and potatoes, the divergence declines during 2004-2011 that is consistent with the existing study [4]. Many studies point out that the consumption of cereal decreases as income increases in China [35]. Vegetables group is the smallest part in DQD which is consistent with the vegetable dominated Chinese diet patterns.…”

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Dynamics of Chinese Diet Divergence from Chinese Food Pagoda and Its Association with Adiposity and Influential Factors: 2004–2011

Zhou

Leepromrath

Tian

et al. 2020

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Nutrition transition in China has a strong impact on dietary quality and health of Chinese consumers. This study developed the diet quality divergence Index (DQD), the divergence between real food consumption and the Chinese food pagoda 2016 (CFP), to measure the quality of diet in China. Using four waves of data (2004, 2006, 2009, and 2011) from China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study shed light on the transition of diet quality for Chinese residents. Results indicate that the DQD generally decreased and Chinese diet quality improved during 2004–2011. The divergence was mainly caused by over-consumption of legumes and nuts, and under-consumption of milk and milk products. Rising income and urbanization were positively correlated with diet quality for the people with low DQD. However, both of them had negative impacts on diet quality for those with high DQD. Females and rural residents held a lower DQD than their counterparts. The results also revealed that healthy food preference, education, dining at home, household size, proportions of teens (6–17) and elders (over 64) in the families are positively correlated with Chinese diet quality. However, labor intensity, frequency of drinking alcohol, and smoking have negative impacts on diet quality. Moreover, higher DQD was found to be associated with increasing risks of overweight/obesity. Therefore, we suggest national healthy policies should pay more attention to nutrition education. It is also necessary to focus on populations with poor diet quality and to adopt measures to control drinking alcohol and smoking.

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Dynamics of Chinese Diet Divergence from Chinese Food Pagoda and Its Association with Adiposity and Influential Factors: 2004–2011

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Tian

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“…Changes in income and prices have been proved to be potentially disruptive for the correct balancing of the diet (Santeramo & Shabnam, 2015;Zhou & Yu, 2015). Moreover, the recent economic crises, joined to the high price volatility, have had severe consequences on global trade, global production and thus, on global availability of food (Bellemare, 2015;.…”

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Emerging trends in European food, diets and food industry

Santeramo

Carlucci

Devitiis

et al. 2018

Food Research International

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Understanding how an adequate food security may be determined, how nutritional intakes evolve over time and are influenced by global dynamics are few of the questions scholars are trying to answer. In addition, a great interest is devoted to the changes in consumers' preferences and expectations as well as to the analysis of food innovations and their impact on the global market.We review the recent and emerging trends in food supply chains of selected sectors (fruits and vegetables, meat, and seafood), and deepen on emerging trends in the food industry. By presenting the evidence provided by the literature and emphasizing the unresolved research questions, we offer a critical view of future directions that should be followed by research agenda.

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“…A great deal of literature examines the relationship between income and caloric demand for poor households in developing countries (e.g., Abdulai and Aubert, a; Bouis and Haddad, ; Salois et al., ; Santeramo and Shabnam, ; Strauss and Thomas, ; Subramanian and Deaton, ; Tian and Yu, ; Zhou and Yu, ). However, despite the salience of micronutrient malnutrition throughout the developing world, surprisingly little work investigates the relationship between income and important vitamins and minerals.…”

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Health and hunger: nutrient response to income depending on caloric availability in Nepal

Ali

Villa

Joshi

2018

Agricultural Economics

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Using data from NLSS III, we estimate nutrient-income elasticities for macronutrients, vitamins, and minerals. We further allow for differential nutrient demand response to income depending on where a household is in the caloric availability distribution. We find that some nutrients are income inelastic indicating that they are necessity goods while others are relatively income elastic. We further test and reject equivalent nutrientincome elasticities across the caloric availability distribution. Households in the lowest calorie quintile have highly income elastic nutrient demand leaving them vulnerable to income fluctuations. Moreover, as households meet their first-order caloric needs, they substitute away from cheap calorie-dense staples toward more expensive nutrient-dense foods. Finally, for most nutrients, households in the highest calorie quintile exhibit more elastic nutrient demand, similar to households in the lowest quintile. Our results suggest that policies aimed at improving income will likely also improve household nutrient availability, particularly for the most calorie poor households. They further suggest that policies aimed at protecting poor households from negative income shocks will also likely yield nutritional benefits.JEL classifications: I12, I15, O12, O15

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Calorie Elasticities with Income Dynamics: Evidence from the Literature

Cited by 38 publications

References 34 publications

Dynamics of Chinese Diet Divergence from Chinese Food Pagoda and Its Association with Adiposity and Influential Factors: 2004–2011

Dynamics of Chinese Diet Divergence from Chinese Food Pagoda and Its Association with Adiposity and Influential Factors: 2004–2011

Emerging trends in European food, diets and food industry

Health and hunger: nutrient response to income depending on caloric availability in Nepal

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