Fuelling Calorie Intake Decline: Household-Level Evidence from Rural India
Amit Basole and
Deepankar Basu
World Development, 2015, vol. 68, issue C, 82-95
Abstract:
In India, average calorie intake has declined even as real monthly expenditure has increased. Since cross sectional evidence suggests a positive relationship between the two variables, the trend emerges as a major puzzle. Using household-level data from four recent rounds of National Sample Survey data on consumption expenditure and a novel instrumental variable estimation strategy we find that rising expenditure on non-food items is one of the factors that has led to the calorie intake decline. We provide causal evidence for such a food budget squeeze in the case of one type of non-food item, viz. expenditures on cooking fuel.
Keywords: calorie consumption puzzle; Asia; India; instrumental variable method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.11.020
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