The Demand for Food Quality in Rural China

Yu, Xiaohua; Abler, David G.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8276.2008.01159.x

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“…Consequently, one can generally expect that income elasticities of calorie consumption move downwards. This is supported by mounting evidence (Subramanian and Deaton 1996;Skoufias 2003;Yu and Abler 2009;Skoufias et al 2011;Jensen and Miller 2010). Sahn (1988), using cross section data in 1980-1981, points out that income elasticities of calories range from 0.28 for high-income groups to 0.76 for low-income groups in Sri Lanka.…”

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Calorie Elasticities with Income Dynamics: Evidence from the Literature

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2014

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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Calorie Elasticities with Income Dynamics: Evidence from the Literature

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“…16 The measure of consumption available from the CHNS is food consumption. Food consumption accounts for roughly half of total household expenditure in rural China during the sample period (Yu and Abler, 2009). These data are collected by a dietary questionnaire recording the items and amounts of food consumption for each member of the household over the past three days (including food consumed both at and away from home).…”

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Insuring against health shocks: Health insurance and household choices

Liu

2016

Journal of Health Economics

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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. This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of public health insurance in mitigating adverse outcomes associated with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total household income and consumption are fully insured against health shocks even without access to health insurance. Household labor supply is an important insurance mechanism against health shocks. Access to health insurance helps households to maintain investment in children's human capital during negative health shocks, which suggests that one benefit of health insurance could arise from reducing the use of costly smoothing mechanisms. JEL Classification:D1, O1, I1

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“…Households tend to shift from traditional dietary dominated by fiber food to highvalue and quality food in company of rapid economic growth (Yu and Abler, 2009;Gao et al, 1996;Obayelu et al 2009;Tian and Yu 2013;Yu, Gao and Zeng 2014).…”

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Dynamic food demand in urban China

Zhou

Herzfeld

2015

China Agricultural Economic Review

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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. Terms of use: Documents in Dynamic Food Demand in Urban ChinaAbstract:Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate dynamic food demand in urban China, with use of a complete dynamic demand system -DLES-LA/DAIDS, which pushes forward the techniques of demand analysis.Design/methodology/approach -We employ a transitionary demand process and develop a new approach of complete demand system with a two-stage dynamic budgeting: an additively separable dynamic linear expenditure system (DLES) in the first stage and a linear approximate dynamic almost ideal demand system (LA/DAIDS). Employing provincial aggregate data (1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010) from the China urban household surveys (UHS), we estimated the demand elasticities for primary food products in urban China.Findings -Our results indicate that most primary food products are necessities and price-inelastic for urban households in China. We also found that the dynamic model tends to yield relatively smaller expenditure elasticities in magnitude than the static models do due to dynamic adjusting costs, such as habit formation, switching costs, and learning process. .Practical implications -The research contributes to the demand analysis methodologically, and can be used for better projections in policy simulation models.Originality/value -This paper methodologically releases the restrictive assumption of instant adjustment in static models and allows consumers to make a dynamic decision in food consumption. Empirically, we introduce a new complete dynamic demand model and carry out a case study with the use of urban household data in China.

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The Demand for Food Quality in Rural China

Cited by 114 publications

References 25 publications

Calorie Elasticities with Income Dynamics: Evidence from the Literature

Calorie Elasticities with Income Dynamics: Evidence from the Literature

Insuring against health shocks: Health insurance and household choices

Dynamic food demand in urban China

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