Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate dynamic food demand in urban China, with use of a complete … (UHS), we estimated the demand elasticities for primary food products in urban China. Findings – Our results indicate that … almost ideal demand system (LA/DAIDS). Employing provincial aggregate data (1995-2010) from the China urban household surveys …

This study provides an alternative explanation for the unusual apparent decline in food consumption in rural China …. Our results indicate that food consumption in rural China is currently being underestimated by about 30%. Our results also … and the calculation of per capita food consumption. In a household survey, total consumption for a household in a certain …

demand model, we find that exposing low-income households to the same products and prices available to high-income households … reduces nutritional inequality by only nine percent, while the remaining 91 percent is driven by differences in demand. These … findings counter the common notion that policies to reduce supply inequities, such as "food deserts," could play an important …