Tian, Xu; Yu, Xiaohua - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 8 (2013) 2, pp. 186-206
between income growth and nutritional improvement is still unclear. In contrast with the biased indirect method, this paper … employs a direct method to estimate the income elasticities of 22 nutrients using household survey data to fill the gap in the … current literature. Our results indicate that the income elasticities of most nutrients are smaller than that which is stated …