Nutritional Economics：Theory and Applications
Prof. Xiaohua
Yu (University of Göttingen)
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This is a virtual book on Nutritional
Economics which consists of the papers written by me in the past decade.
Comments and suggestions are welcome (xyu(at)gwdg.de).
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Section I: Introduction
Chapter
1: Introduction to Nutrients: Calories, Fat,
Carbohydrate, Proteins, Minerals, and Vitamins
Chapter
2: Introduction to Nutrition Measures
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Section II: Model Demand for Nutrients
and Health Diet
Chapter
3: Demand
for Nutrients in China
Tian X. ,and X. Yu (2013): “The Demand
for Nutrients in China”, Frontiers of
Economics in China. Vol.8(2):186-206.
Chapter4:
Consumer
Demand for Healthy Diet in the US
Gao Z., X. Yu and J. Lee (2013): “Consumer
Demand for Healthy Diet: New Evidence from the Healthy Eating Index”, Australian Journal of Agricultural and
Resource Economics, Vol.57(3):301-319.
Chapter 5：Model
Nutrition Improvement and Dietary Change in China
Tian
X. and X. Yu (2015). Using
Semiparametric Models to Study Nutrition Improvement and Dietary Change with
Different Indices: The Case of China.
Food Policy. Vol. 53:67–81
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Section III: Price and Income effects
on Nutrients
Chapter
6: Nutrition
Impacts of Rising Food Prices in African Countries
Yu, X. and Shimokawa S. (2016) “Nutrition
Impacts of Rising Food Prices in African Countries: A Review”. Food Security. Vol. 8(5):985-997. DOI:
10.1007/s12571-016-0605-7.
Chapter 7: Income
change and Calories intake from a global context
Zhou
D., and X. Yu (2016) “Calorie
Elasticities with Income Dynamics: Evidence from the Literature”, Applied Economic Perspective and Policy.
Vol.38 (1): 50-72.
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Section IV: Other factors affecting
nutrition: Nutrition Knowledge, Memory, Learning, Holiday, Food Structure, and
Food Facility
Chapter 8: Nutrition
Knowledge, Iron Deficiency and Children Anemia in Rural China
Zhao Q. and X. Yu (2020) Nutrition
Knowledge, Iron Deficiency and Children Anemia in Rural China, Journal of Development Studies.Vol.56(3):578-595.
Chapter 9:
Memory utility, Food Consumption and Obesity
Zeng, Qiyan, Xiaohua Yu, Te Bao (2019) Memory Utility, Food Consumption and Obesity: Evidence from China. Forthcoming in China Economic Review.
Ding, Y. & Min, Shi & Wang, Xiaobing
& Yu, Xiaohua, 2022. "Memory of famine: The persistent impact of famine
experience on food waste behavior," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).
Chapter 10: Learning to Weight Loss
Chapter
11: Nutrition Intake and Holiday Effects in China
Luo, H. & X. Yu, 2022. "National day holiday and Weight
Gain in China: evidence from the CHNS surveys," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(2), pages 145-149,
January.
Chapter
12: Food Structural Change and Nutrition Improvement in China
Chapter
13: Supermarkets and Nutrition
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V: Nutrition Statistics, Subjective Welfare and Nutrition History
Chapter
14: Food
Waste and Nutrition Loss in China
Min
S., X. Wang, X. Wang (2020) Does
dietary knowledge affect household food waste in the developing economy of
China?, Forthcoming in Food Policy.
Chapter 15 Inconsistencies
in Food and Nutrition Statistics in China
Yu X. and D. Abler (2016) “Matching
Food with Mouths: A Statistical Explanation to the Abnormal Decline of Per
Capita Food Consumption in Rural China”, Food Policy. Vol.63:36-43.
Chapter 16
Obesity and Overweight Standard and subjective wellbeing
Zeng Q. and X. Yu (2019) Overweight and Obesity Standards and Subjective
Well-Being: Evidence from China, Economics and Human Biology. Vol.33: 144-148
Chapter
17: A
Century of Nutrition Transition in Rural China
Yu X. (2018) Engel
Curve, Farmer Welfare and Food Consumption in 40 Years of Rural China, China Agricultural Economic Review.
Vol.10(1):65-77.
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VI: Nutrition and Economic Behavior
Chapter 18: Food Choice and Economic
Behavior
Chapter 19: Hunger and IQ
Chapter 20: Social Behavior and Food Consumption