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主题：The Demand for Food Quality in Rural China

主讲人：于 晓华

主持人：赵 国庆

时间：2009-9-17（星期四） 下午2：30-

地点：明主 0408

ABSTRACT

Many studies of food demand do not use actual prices but unit values, obtained by dividing expenditures by the quantity consumed. This can bias empirical analyses because unit values are not exogenous market prices; they reflect household food quality choices within each food category. This article develops a framework for assessing the resulting bias in income and price elasticities of demand and applies the framework to data for rural China. Empirical results indicate that households in rural China tend to consume higher-quality food as income increases, with a greater sensitivity to income for basic foods than for luxury foods.

中国人民大学经济学院

2009年9月14日

作者简历：

Employment

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, University of Goettingen

Education

Ph.D., Dual-Title Program in Agricultural, Environmental & Regional Economics and Demography

Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

The Pennsylvania State University　 May 2009

M. Sc, Natural Resource Economics, Kyoto University, Japan 　　　2005

B.A,　 Agricultural Economics, Renmin University of China, China　2001