... aversion tend to use fewer types of energy sources and are more inclined to use primitive fuels. Additionally, household income, credit participation, and access to information can all mitigate the inhibitory effect on energy transition caused by risk preferences. Originality/value To the best...

...Wenyan Xu; Qiran Zhao; Wei Si; Chen Zhu Purpose While the adverse health consequences of obesity are well-documented, the causal effect between obesity and economic outcomes, particularly individual income in the labor market, has yielded inconsistent findings. At the same time, China has...

... Coefficient into structure effect, price effect, quantity effect and income effect. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data between 2000 and 2011, the authors estimate these four effects by employing a decomposition method. Findings Results show that Engel's Coefficient in China decreased by 8.7...

... further examination. Design/methodology/approach Based on the assumption of non-homothetic preference, this paper apply the method provided by Eaton and Kortum (2002) in a new theoretical model and empirically analyzes the impact of per capita income on the quality structure of imported food by using...

...Adam M. Komarek; Max Spoor; Shuyi Feng; Xiaoping Shi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the expansion of agricultural production into marginal lands, also known as “wasteland,” and examine the association between political capital, household income, and using additional marginal lands...

...Fujin Yi; Wuyi Lu; Yingheng Zhou Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the multiplier effects of the grain subsidy program in China, which is a large food self-sufficiency project that is implemented as a cash transfer program. Income multiplier effects have not been empirically...

...Peng Nie; Alfonso Sousa-Poza Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use data from the 1991 to 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) to analyze how income in China is related to calorie intake. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs a variety of parametric, nonparametric...

...Huang Chunyan; Zhong Funing; He Jun Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the costs of price and income subsidies when the food security policy targets the urban poor. The result may help policymakers choose a desired subsidy scheme to ensure food security for the urban poor...

...Bjorn Gustafsson; Ximing Yue Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate rural people's perception of income adequacy in order to understand how it is affected by income in the county where the respondent lives, age of household members, as well as number of household members. The paper...

... was used to investigate the distribution of agricultural growth in China using 1988‐2008 panel data of the 29 provinces on the mainland. A nonparametric income distribution approach was employed to decompose China's agricultural output growth into farmland accumulation, capital deepening, labor‐scale...

...Kuo S. Huang; Fred Gale Purpose China's remarkable income growth has changed the food landscape in recent years. Chinese consumers are demanding greater food quantity and quality and changing the nutrient content of their diets. Most food demand studies are based on data from earlier time periods...

...Steve Snyder; Wen S. Chern Purpose The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of remittance income on rural households in China. Design/methodology/approach Using data from a large survey of farming households in three Chinese provinces, the impacts of remittances and other types...