Alcoholic beverage consumption in China: a censored demand system approach

Pan, Suwen; Fang, Cheng; Malaga, Jaime E.

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“…Drinking increased with age among this group of students. The positive association of age with drinking was different from that in some of the previous literature [14, 25], which made inferences for the entire adult population. Such an inconsistency may suggest that the relationship between age and drinking is not linear.…”

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Cultural Orientation and Its Associations with Alcohol Use by University Students in China

2016

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Cultural orientation is defined as an individual’s cultural preferences when encountering imported culture while still living in the native culture. Data was analyzed from 1305 Chinese university students attending universities in Beijing, Kunming, and Wuhan. Cultural orientation was assessed with the Chinese Cultural Orientation Questionnaire, which assesses both Western and Traditional Chinese cultural orientations. The analysis used hierarchical logistic regression with nondrinkers as the reference group and controlling for demographic factors (age, gender, and urban/rural background). Western cultural orientation was found to significantly increase the odds of recent drinking. The results indicated that higher Western cultural orientation was, after gender, the second most important factor associated with Chinese college student drinking frequency. Traditional Chinese cultural orientation was not associated with drinking frequency. This study highlights an unexpected outcome of globalization on students who have not left their home cultures.

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“…Many variables influence drinking behaviors. To examine the association of cultural orientation with drinking beyond prominent known influences, we controlled for age [14], gender[15] and rural-urban hometown[16]. …”

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Cultural Orientation and Its Associations with Alcohol Use by University Students in China

2016

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“…The participation elasticity ranges from −0.007 to −0.017 and the intensity elasticity is around −0.1 consistently across three specifications. Based on the specification of city/county level fixed effects, the total (participation+ intensity) price elasticity is −0.12, which is far smaller in absolute value than those recovered in the earlier Chinese studies [9,10]. The main reason is that earlier studies have no direct measure of prices of alcoholic beverages.…”

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Is the Demand for Alcoholic Beverages in Developing Countries Sensitive to Price? Evidence from China

Tian

Liu

2011

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Economic literature in developed countries suggests that demand for alcoholic beverages is sensitive to price, with an estimated price elasticity ranging from −0.38 for beer and −0.7 for liquor. However, few studies have been conducted in developing countries. We employ a large individual-level dataset in China to estimate the effects of price on alcohol demand. Using the data from China Health and Nutrition Survey for the years 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004 and 2006, we estimate two-part models of alcohol demand. Results show the price elasticity is virtually zero for beer and only −0.12 for liquor, which is far smaller than those derived from developed countries. Separate regressions by gender reveals the results are mainly driven by men. The central implication of this study is, while alcohol tax increases can raise government revenue, it alone is not an effective policy to reduce alcohol related problems in China.

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“…In order to retain this assumption, we follow Yen et al (2003) so that the final equation in the 6-good system is estimated with Yen et al (2003), and Zheng and Henneberry (2010) for an empirical application. 12 See Goodwin et al (2004), Pan et al (2006), Chakravorty et al (2008), Zheng and Henneberry (2010) for applications and Tauchmann (2005) for a critique. 13 Pre-1995, the survey was conducted every 7 years.…”

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Indirect tax reform and the specification of demand: the case of Ireland

Savage

2015

Int Tax Public Finance

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This paper examines the sensitivity of marginal tax reform analysis to changes in the underlying demand system. In particular, we analyse the sensitivity of results from Ahmad and Stern's (J Publ Econ 25(3):259-298, 1984) marginal tax reform model to different specifications of Deaton and Muellbauer's (Am Econ Rev 70(3):312-326, 1980) Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) and Banks et al.'s (Rev Econ Stat 79 (4):527-539, 1997) Quadratic AIDS. Using Irish Household Budget Survey data, we show that tax reform results exhibit a low degree of sensitivity to changes in the underlying demand system. An adjustment for a mass of observed zero-expenditures in the data for certain goods produces most sensitivity in the tax reform results. Even in these cases, many of the tax reform recommendations remain constant. Including demerit good arguments in the tax reform model can substantially alter the tax reform recommendations relating to demerit goods. Notably though, when we include these arguments in the tax reform model, the results are particularly insensitive to changes in the underlying demand system.

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Alcoholic beverage consumption in China: a censored demand system approach

Cited by 29 publications

References 3 publications

Cultural Orientation and Its Associations with Alcohol Use by University Students in China

Cultural Orientation and Its Associations with Alcohol Use by University Students in China

Is the Demand for Alcoholic Beverages in Developing Countries Sensitive to Price? Evidence from China

Indirect tax reform and the specification of demand: the case of Ireland

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