主讲人：于晓华（Goettingen University）
时间：2015年5月20日（周三）下午1:30
地点：国际经管学院会议室（诚明楼三层）
主办方：国际经济管理学院

摘要：This  study  provides  an  alternative  explanation  for  the  unusual  apparent  decline  in  food consumption in rural China after 2000. We find that it is mainly attributable to significant measurement errors in the Chinese Rural Household Survey and the calculation of per capita food  consumption.  In  a  household  survey,  total  consumption  for  a  household  in  a  certain period  is  often  well  recorded,  and  per  capita  consumption  is  obtained  by  dividing  total consumption  by  household  size.  Such  a  calculation  of  per  capita  food  consumption  is vulnerable to a mismatch between food and mouths. Total consumption may be subject to measurement errors caused primarily by food away from home (FAFH). Also, the household size recorded in the survey is not necessarily the same as the number of mouths (consumption household size), who consume the food recorded in the survey. Our results indicate that food consumption in rural China is currently being underestimated by about 30%. Our results also indicate that income elasticities of food consumption are greater than measured elasticities based on the Rural Household Survey data. 

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