Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low … income group declined in the 1990s. Does this imply a zero or negative income elasticity for the low income group? This paper … that income elasticities of calorie consumption for urban households are far from zero, and the lower the income level the …

experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A … current consumption, and where novel goods determine consumption changes over time with ambiguous effects on diet …

the China Household Income Project surveys covering the same 14 provinces from 1988 to 2018 are used. We find that the …The changes in the employment structure in rural China are studied with a focus on off farm self-employment. Data from … proportion of adults in rural China with self-employment as their primary form of off-farm employment increased from only 2 …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …"Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …, reduction in social welfare provision, deregulation of grain prices, and increases in income uncertainty in the 1990s have …

This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the … distribution of long-term earnings. -- Earnings inequality ; covariance structure of earnings ; China …