@article{Zhang:31606,
      recid = {31606},
      author = {Zhang, Xiaobo and Mount, Timothy D. and Boisvert, Richard  N.},
      title = {THE DEMAND FOR FOOD GRAIN IN CHINA : NEW INSIGHTS INTO A  CONTROVERSY},
      journal = {Agricultural and Resource Economics Review},
      address = {2001-04},
      number = {1203-2016-94855},
      pages = {9},
      year = {2001},
      abstract = {There is a substantial controversy in the economics  literature over the magnitude of the expenditure elasticity  for food grain in China that is caused, to a large extent,  by whether time-series or cross-section data are used in  the analysis.  A set of reasonable elasticities for a  complete demand system is estimated by using a panel of  county level data in Guangdong Province for the last ten  years.  The results show that food grain has a small  positive income elasticity, implying that food grain is not  an inferior good in China.  The reason that consumption per  capita has not increased during a period of rapid economic  growth in income is that the relative prices of the food  and non-food substitutes for food grain have decreased.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/31606},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.31606},
}