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 … analysis. Findings – People in high‐income counties perceive that more cash, but not grains are needed than those living in low‐income …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the costs of price and income subsidies when the food … urban residents by different income level; evaluating the potential costs of shifting to income subsidy aiming to maintain … the real income levels of the low income, lowest income or the poor residents if grain price increases by 20 percent; and …

known as “wasteland,” and examine the association between political capital, household income, and using additional marginal … association with income, and that household political capital, in the form of Communist Party membership or being a village cadre …

is a large food self-sufficiency project that is implemented as a cash transfer program. Income multiplier effects have … not been empirically examined in the evaluation of the grain subsidy program although increasing the income of farmers is … employed to measure the program’s income multiplier. An unrestricted model was first employed to measure the multipliers in a …

analyze how income in China is related to calorie intake. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs a variety of … parametric, nonparametric, and semiparametric methods for cross-sectional and panel data, and estimates calorie-income … elasticities for adults aged 18-60. Findings – The calorie-income elasticities are generally small, ranging from −0.031 to 0 …

the predictive power of income and attitude towards cultural change in the context of luxury goods. The results show that …

works used some “adjusted” income data to determine total retail expenditures; however, these expenditures were not adjusted … according to spending behaviour of the various income groups. This particular study determines net effect of outshopping and … inshopping levels based on retail expenditures which are calculated for each income group within an area. In this way net retail …

determine when the GDI and HDI generate consistent optimal plans. A problematic feature of the optimal plans is that the income … acts to distort the allocation between health and education expenditure. The paper argues that it is better to drop income … from the index. Alternatively, the paper considers net income, income net of education and health expenditures, as …

interest in low‐income customers. Fulfilment of financial services needs of low‐income customers is perceived as either … probabilistic representative sample of 3,010 low and higher income customers of a large Canadian financial institution were compared …. Despite similar aspirations, low‐income customers appeared limited in terms of personal growth and expenditures and were …

gender, gender role type (GRT) and income with a longitudinal two-cohort design of business school graduates (1990, 2000 … than masculine or androgynous GRT in both cohorts over time, and relative income of androgynous compared to masculine men … is higher in the 2000 cohort than in the 1990 cohort. Contrary to the authors ' hypotheses, the income gap between women …