How does Food Inequality Interplay with Income Inequality in China? Public

Abstract

Using Chinese Health Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data from 11 survey years, this paper examines the relationship between income inequality and food inequality. Specifically, income inequality refers to the unequal distribution of income at the community level in China, and food inequality is operationalized as the unequal distribution of food access in China. This study has two level of analysis: the household level and the community level. This study examines what determines food access at the household level, and further investigates how income inequality affects the unequal distribution of food access. Results suggest that individual income and geographic indicators play significant roles in determining individual food access and also the unequal distribution of food access at the community level, whereas income inequality casts limited influence on food inequality measured by food access. Major contributions of this study include examining the relationship between two inequality indexes and investigates food access at the aggregated level. However, this study is also limited in terms of operationalizing food inequality.

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Table of Contents

I. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 1

II. Literature Review .................................................................................................................... 5

III. Data and Methodology..............................................................................................................8

IV. Results ..................................................................................................................................18

VI. Discussion.............................................................................................................................. 21 References....................................................................................................................................24 Tables..........................................................................................................................................26

Table 1: Sample Means and Standard Deviations of All Variables......................................................... 27

Table 2: Survey Years................................................................................................................... 29

Table 3: Types of Community......................................................................................................... 30

Table 4: OLS Estimates Predicting Access to Food ..............................................................................31

Table 5: OLS Estimates Predicting Food Inequality..............................................................................32

Table 6: OLS Estimates for Access to Food across Survey Year....................... .....................................33

Table 7: OLS Estimates for Food Inequality across Survey Years...........................................................34

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School	Emory College
Department	Economics
Degree	BA
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Economics, General Sociology, General
Mot-clé	Food Access Inequality
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Francis-Tan, Andrew, Emory University
Committee Members	Kornrich, Sabino R, Emory University Lin, Zhongjian, Emory University

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