Food consumption of outgoing rural migrant workers in urban area of China: a QUAIDS approach

Han, Xinru; Chen, Yongfu

doi:10.1108/caer-06-2015-0067

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“…Except for the high‐income groups, most of the Wald tests shown in Table 2 reject the null hypothesis that the joint parameter of the quadratic term of total food expenditure is equal to zero in the second step. Overall, the statistical test results indicate that the QUAIDS model is superior to the AIDS model (Han & Chen, 2016; Zheng & Henneberry, 2010).…”

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“…As an official statistical activity, the survey presents extensive information on demographic characteristics (i.e., household size and educational level), household incomes, living expenditure (including expenditure on different food and nonfood items), employment, housing, and asset ownership. This survey has been discussed in detail by Gould and Villarreal (2006), widely used in many recent studies on food demand (Fuller et al, 2004; Gould, 2002; Han & Chen, 2016; Liu & Chern, 2003; Wu et al, 2014). A total of 8818 urban households are randomly selected from 15 cities and prefectures in Guangdong province.…”

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“…The control variables consist of the householders' education, the family structure, and whether there is an elderly or young person in the family and family size. The specific variables range according to social demographic characteristics, dummy variables for location, and year characteristics (Han & Chen, 2016).…”

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Household dairy demand by income groups in an urban Chinese province: A multistage budgeting approach

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Chen

2020

Agribusiness

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Price and income elasticities are estimated for six food categories and different types of dairy across low‐, medium‐, and high‐income groups using 7426 urban households in Guangdong province from 2007 to 2009. Results from the estimation of a multistage budgeting approach to deal with zero expenditure show that demand for milk and dairy items among low‐income groups is more sensitive to income and price fluctuations compared to medium‐ and high‐income families. Therefore, a program of large income or price subsidies for dairy items may be an effective policy solution to improve the nutrition of the poor households. [EconLit citations: P46, Q18, O12].

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Household dairy demand by income groups in an urban Chinese province: A multistage budgeting approach

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2020

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“…The data used in this study are cross-sectional and mainly from the 2009 urban household survey conducted by the NBSC, which has been widely used in previous empirical studies of China's urban food demand (Yen et al, 2004a;Gould and Villarreal, 2006;Zheng and Henneberry, 2012;Han and Chen, 2016;Chen et al, 2018;Han et al, 2019).…”

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Impact of changing income distribution on fluid milk consumption in urban China

Zhu

Chen

Zheng

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PurposeChina has experienced a fast economic growth and shown a significant rise in income inequality in the past decades. During the same period, fluid milk consumption in urban areas has rapidly expanded. The objective of this paper is to analyze and simulate the influence of income distribution changes on fluid milk consumption of households in urban China.Design/methodology/approachThis study applies an inverse hyperbolic sine (IHS) double-hurdle model to modeling at-home fluid milk consumption of households across different income strata based on a sample of 11,861 urban households in five provinces in China, and simulating the impact of changing income distribution, including five income growth patterns, on fluid milk consumption of total households as well as specific household groups.FindingsThe fluid milk consumption in urban China will continue to increase, with the unconditional income elasticity being 0.334 for the full sample and 0.347, 0.335 and 0.162 for the low-, middle-, and high-income groups, respectively. The simulation results show an evidence that, compared with distribution-neutral and disparity-enlarging income growth patterns, a rising income equality would lead to a more significant increase in fluid milk consumption. And the inequality-reducing income growth pattern has a larger impact on fluid milk consumption of households with seniors and no children, as well as households having no local urban household registration (hukou).Practical implicationsThe government should strengthen the supply measures of fluid milk in urban areas, enlarge domestic dairy production, and diversify the sources of milk imports. It is also necessary to subsidize low-income families, especially households with seniors or households migrated from other areas without getting local urban hukou, which could simultaneously improve nutritional benefits and alleviate financial pressures.Originality/valueA simulation considering the evolution of income distribution as well as different household groups is conducted. Widely distributed data with a large sample size and detailed demographic information are used. The problems of zero consumption and non-normal distribution are addressed by the IHS double-hurdle model.

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“…The majority of previous studies focus exclusively on the impacts of urbanization on food production (or consumption). For instance, on the demand side, some previous studies have used econometric models, including the almost ideal demand system (Huang and David 1993;Mendez et al 2004), twostage Almost Ideal Demand System-Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS-QUAIDS) (Zheng et al 2015) and Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) (Han and Chen 2016), to analyze the changes in agricultural products consumption patterns empirically. On the supply side, the effects of urbanization on grain production are reflected in essential inputs, such as agricultural water use (Khan et al 2009;Yan et al 2015) and cultivated land (Siciliano 2012).…”

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Modeling the effects of urbanization on grain production and consumption in China

Ning-lu

Wen-xin

2017

Journal of Integrative Agriculture

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The impact of rapid urbanization on food security of China has received considerable attention. It is not clear whether China can strike a balance between urbanization and food security, especially grain security. There have been numerous studies examining the effects of urbanization on grain production or consumption, but few studies have yet analyzed grain balances. Based on the Chinese World Agricultural Regional Market Equilibrium Model (CWARMEM), this paper explores the impacts of urbanization on national and regional grain balances through different scenarios. The CWARMEM is a global partial equilibrium multimarket model which captures the differences between urban and rural residents as well as the effects of globalization. The results show that urbanization has a small negative effect on maintaining grain self-sufficiency. Despite of that, China is able to achieve the objective of grain security set by its policymakers. Moreover, urbanization changes regional grain balances across China: the position of Northeast China and North China, as two dominant grain suppliers of China, will be weaken; Central China and East China will increase dependence on other grain suppliers; the grain surplus of Northwest China will increase slightly. Besides, in terms of grain category, urbanization helps China achieve self-sufficiency in food grain (rice and wheat), while expands deficit of feed grain (maize).

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Food consumption of outgoing rural migrant workers in urban area of China: a QUAIDS approach

Cited by 20 publications

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Household dairy demand by income groups in an urban Chinese province: A multistage budgeting approach

Household dairy demand by income groups in an urban Chinese province: A multistage budgeting approach

Impact of changing income distribution on fluid milk consumption in urban China

Modeling the effects of urbanization on grain production and consumption in China

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