The Demand for Food and Calories

Subapriya, S.; Deaton, Angus

doi:10.1086/262020

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“…The reliability of information and high response rate of expenditure data compared to income data are also noted in the literature (Subramanian and Deaton 1996;Garrett and Ruel 1999). b A household is identified to have relationship only when all the following three conditions are satisfied:…”

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Why farm households have differences in corruption experiences? Evidences from Bangladesh

Anik¹,

Bauer²,

Alam³

2013

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Th e article explores the household-level determinants of corruption and its diff erent forms in Bangladesh. It also identifi es the micro-level factors for which households pay diff erent amount of bribe. To attain these objectives, experiences of 210 Bangladeshi farm households belonging to six diff erent districts of the country are analyzed. Th e econometric analyses show that the households with higher expenditure are more likely to face corruption and bribery, and also pay a higher amount of bribe. However, these households are less likely to face the negligence of duty and nepotism or favouritism. Such diff erences in the impact of the expenditure variable can be argued to be the outcome of a situation where corruption is pervasive and the offi cials have the bribe maximizing objective. Relationships with diff erent power entities reduce the households' probability to face corruption and its diff erent forms, and can avoid a higher bribe payment. Th e results argue for several policy actions for combating corruption in the country.

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Why farm households have differences in corruption experiences? Evidences from Bangladesh

Anik¹,

Bauer²,

Alam³

2013

AGR ECON-CZECH

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“…For example, higher incomes could lead to increased calorie intake if food is scarce to begin with (Fogel, 1994). The income elasticities of demand for nutritious foods, however, tend to be higher than those of coarse grains (Bouis, 1994); therefore, households may use income increases to purchase more foods rich in micronutrients (such as fruits and vegetables) and protein (such as eggs and meat) (Subramanian and Deaton, 1996;Nguyen and Winters, 2011). Diet improvements might manifest themselves in measures of nutritional status, particularly HAZ scores.…”

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Migration and young child nutrition: evidence from rural China

2015

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas. We use the interaction terms between wage growth in provincial capital cities and initial village migrant networks as instrumental variables to account for migration selection. Our results show that parental migration has no significant impact on the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be achieved through increased access to tap water in migrant households. Concerns about the sustainability of the impact on weight are raised in the conclusions.JEL Classification: I1, J6, O1

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“…In row 1, we see that again girls exhibit the largest correlations between 12 There is an illuminating example from the development literature on how fixed-effects regression often find insignificant or zero effects, particularly when the variables in the estimation are measured with errors. Subramanian and Deaton (1996) estimate the income elasticity of a calorie. In the paper they argue that previous attempts that yielded an elasticity of zero do so precisely because they used fixed effects methods which tend to be inefficient.…”

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Weight gain in adolescents and their peers

Halliday

Kwak

2009

Economics & Human Biology

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Despite the urgent public health implications, relatively little is yet known about the effect of peers on adolescent weight gain. We describe trends and features of adolescent BMI in a nationally representative dataset and document correlations in weight gain among peers. We find strong correlations between own body mass index (BMI) and peers' BMI's. Though the correlations are especially strong in the upper ends of the BMI distribution, the relationship is smooth and holds over almost the entire range of adolescent BMI. Furthermore, the results are robust to the inclusion of school fixed effects and basic controls for other confounding factors such as race, sex, and age. Some recent research in this area considers whether or not adolescent weight gain is caused by peers. We discuss the econometric issues in plausibly estimating such effects while accounting for growth spurts and difficulties in defining adolescent obesity. While our work identifies correlations between adolescent BMI and peers' BMI, it is not intended to and cannot fully address the existence of endogenous peer effects. JEL: I10, I12

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The Demand for Food and Calories

Cited by 465 publications

References 13 publications

Why farm households have differences in corruption experiences? Evidences from Bangladesh

Why farm households have differences in corruption experiences? Evidences from Bangladesh

Migration and young child nutrition: evidence from rural China

Weight gain in adolescents and their peers

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