Consumption Choices
The effects of food production, markets and preferences on diets in India
Summary
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Summary
- Zusammenfassung
- Acknowledgements
- About the author
- About the book
- Citability of the eBook
- Contents
- List of Appendices
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Background and Motivation
- 1.2 Research Objective and Questions
- 1.3 Conceptual Framework
- 1.4 Nutrition – Engine of Development
- 1.5 Measurement of Nutrition
- 1.6 Research Design
- 1.6.1 Study sites
- 1.6.2 Sampling
- Chapter 2 Focus on India: Food Prices and Food Security
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Recent Economic Development
- 2.3 Food Price Trends
- 2.4 Food Consumption Trends
- Chapter 3 Production Diversity and Dietary Diversity
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Empirical Evidence and Research Questions
- 3.3 Theoretical Model
- 3.4 Data
- 3.4.1 Dependent variables
- 3.4.2 Main explanatory variables
- 3.5 Methods
- 3.5.1 Estimation strategy
- 3.5.2 Identification strategy
- 3.6 Results
- 3.6.1 Primary results: Effects of production diversity
- 3.6.2 Secondary results: Effects of markets
- 3.6.3 Robustness checks
- 3.7 Discussion
- 3.8 Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Considering Preferences for Food Consumption
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Related Literature and Contribution
- 4.3 Theoretical Model
- 4.3.1 Preference model for nutrition
- 4.3.2 Discussion of the model
- 4.3.3 Model extension for altruism
- 4.3.4 Limitations of the model
- 4.4 Conclusion
- Chapter 5 Effects of Preferences on Food Consumption
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Distribution of Preferences
- 5.3 Theoretical Model
- 5.4 Data
- 5.4.1 Preference elicitation
- 5.4.2 Main variables
- 5.5 Estimation Strategy
- 5.6 Results
- 5.6.1 Primary results
- 5.6.2 Secondary results
- 5.6.3 Robustness checks
- 5.7 Conclusion
- Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks
- 6.1 Summary and Contribution
- 6.2 Policy Implications, Limitations and Further Research
- Bibliography
A.1 Prevalence of Micronutrient Deficiency
A.2 Micronutrients, Sources and Consequences of Their Lack in Nutrition
A.3 Food Groups of Food Intake Indicators
A.5 Random Walk Sampling Technique
B.1 Checks for Instrument Variable
B.4 Production Diversity and Income
C.1 Solving Integral for Mean Variance Form
C.2 Differentiation for Preference Model
C.3 Solving for Optimal Savings Rate
D.1 Spatial Distribution of Preferences in the World
D.2 Distribution of Preferences in the World
D.3 Preferences and Income in the World
D.4 Spatial Distribution of Preferences in India
D.5 Preferences and Income in India
D.6 Distribution of Preferences in India
D.8 Calculation of Preferences
Table 1.1 Characteristics of rural study regions
Table 3.1 Description of main variables
Table 3.2 Summary statistics for variables
Table 3.3 Impact of production diversity on dietary diversity of women
Table 3.4 Impact of production diversity on minimum dietary diversity of women
Table 3.5 Impact of market access on dietary diversity of women
Table 3.6 Consumption of food groups by market visits
Table 5.1 Items of survey preference module
Table 5.2 Scale of preference traits
Table 5.3 Preference traits statistics
Table 5.4 Description of variables
Table 5.5 Summary statistics for variables
Table 5.8 Correlation of risk levels with food and nutrition security indicators
Table 5.9 Correlation of various preferences with nutrition intake variables
Table 5.10 Point elasticities of risk on income
Details
- Pages
- 262
- Publication Year
- 2019
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631800898
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631800904
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9783631800911
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631797358
- DOI
- 10.3726/b16086
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2020 (January)
- Keywords
- Economic preferences Nutrition-sensitive agriculture Markets Dietary diversity Nutrition security Food security Development economics Behavioral economics
- Published
- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2019. 262 pp., 26 fig. col., 36 fig. b/w, 31 tables.
- Product Safety
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