@article{Rupa:333827,
      recid = {333827},
      author = {Rupa, Jesmin Ara and Umberger, Wendy J. and Zeng, Di},
      title = {Does food market modernisation lead to improved dietary  diversity and diet quality for urban Vietnamese  households?},
      journal = {Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics},
      address = {2019-07-01},
      number = {428-2023-701},
      month = {Jul},
      year = {2019},
      abstract = {This study investigates the possible mechanisms through  which modern food markets may affect Vietnamese households’  dietary diversity and diet quality using data from a survey  of 1,700 urban households with seven-day food recall. We  calculate Household Dietary Diversity Scores to measure  dietary diversity, and use consumption frequencies of  micronutrients (vitamin A and heme iron) and a  macronutrient (protein) to create a household measure of  diet quality. We estimate a Poisson regression model using  a two-step control function approach to address the  potential endogeneity of our key explanatory variable,  modern market food expenditure shares. Higher modern market  food expenditure share is positively and significantly  associated with consumption frequency of heme iron, but  there are no significant associations with consumption of  vitamin A and protein. We further explore indirect linkages  between food expenditure shares and dietary diversity,  which in turn, may be linked to household diet quality.  Results from a system of equations show that the food  expenditure share variable has no significant relationship  with dietary diversity, but dietary diversity is positively  and significantly associated with diet quality. Our results  indicate that alone, policies which encourage ‘food market  modernisation’ are not enough to improve diet quality in  urban Vietnam.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/333827},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.333827},
}