Declining Nutrient Intake in a Growing China: Does Household Heterogeneity Matter?

Jing You, Katsushi Imai and Raghav Gaiha

World Development, 2016, vol. 77, issue C, 171-191

Abstract: This paper uses Chinese household data for 1989–2009 to explain why mean nutrient intake has declined despite economic growth. We focus on household heterogeneity in nutrient intake response to increases in household income allowing for its endogeneity. A quantile instrumental-variable fixed-effects panel estimation shows that rising income tends to reduce inequality in macronutrient intake in both urban and rural areas in 2004–09. This is driven by increases in nutrient intake for the urban nutrient poor and falls in nutrient intake for the rural nutrient non-poor. On the other hand, fluctuations in prices of meat, eggs, and oil increase nutrition poverty.

Keywords: nutrient intake; inequality; poverty; IV regression; quantile regression; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.08.016

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