Engel curves and equivalence scales for Bangladesh

Hasan, Syed

doi:10.1080/13547860.2015.1137471

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“…The insensitive consumption in the face of an income effect is feasible with a quadratic Engel curve, which indicates that households do not change their rice consumption considerably with income. This is consistent with some earlier studies on some developing countries including Bangladesh (e.g., Bhalotra and Attfield, ; Hasan, ).…”

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The impact of the 2005–2010 rice price increase on consumption in rural Bangladesh

Hasan

2016

Agricultural Economics

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This article studies the impact of the rice price increase between 2005 and 2010 on consumption in rural Bangladesh. Using the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) data, we compare net rice buyers and sellers to self-sufficient households. To identify the effect of rice price changes on household consumption of rice, nonrice food and nonfood items, we employ a difference-in-differences (DiD) technique. Our findings indicate that the surge in domestic rice prices between 2005 and 2010 reduced the nonrice food consumption of net rice buyer households by 7%, compared to the households who are self-sufficient in rice production. However, it did neither affect their rice nor their nonfood consumption. In contrast, while we find no significant effect of rice price increases on the rice consumption of net rice sellers, we observe a 9% increase in their nonrice food consumption. In such situation, a subsidy on low-quality rice may be effective in fulfilling the nutritional requirement of low-income households.JEL classifications: D12, I32, O13, O53, Q12

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The impact of the 2005–2010 rice price increase on consumption in rural Bangladesh

Hasan

2016

Agricultural Economics

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“…First, for rural areas, the observed food demand patterns are plausible for poor countries with households that may have unmet demands for necessary goods (including food, education, and housing) at low-income levels. This implies that as household incomes rise, they spend their additional earnings on those necessary goods more than proportionally and this induces a reduction in budget shares of other types of household expenditures (Hasan 2016). When household incomes increase enough and reach a certain threshold level, they can decide to spend more than proportionally on other categories of goods and services (e.g., energy, electronical appliances such as refrigerators).…”

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“…The contribution of the present study to the literature is twofold. First, unlike earlier studies that investigate FECs in developing countries (Abdulai and Aubert 2004;Kedir and Girma 2007;Abdulai and Christian 2011;Hasan 2016;Melo et al 2015;Moss et al 2016), the present study considers household location as a key potential driving force in food consumption patterns. As it has been documented in the existing literature, SSA countries, including Rwanda, have experienced excessive urbanization since the late 1990s and have faced a daunting set of challenges that include a deficient capacity of service provisions and enormous gaps in food market prices between urban and rural areas (Maxwell 1999).…”

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Income and food Engel curves in Rwanda: a household microdata analysis

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Food insecurity and malnutrition are still major challenges for large proportions of households in Sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical literature on food demand, however, suggests mixed evidence on the roles of income and other socioeconomic attributes on food demand. This study analyzes the food demand among households in Rwanda, based on nationally representative household expenditures and demographic (EICV4, 2013/14) survey data. The results show that poor households consume merely food containing higher carbohydrates and starches. Further, the study finds that the majority of rural households spend almost nothing on micronutrients from animal products, suggesting that effective targeted food policy interventions for poor and rural households may play an important role in reducing the incidence of malnutrition through improving food diets.

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“…However, our analysis with both of these approaches provide similar results. Another issue is that income, which enters linearly in our model, may have a nonlinear relation with food consumption (Hasan, 2016a). Thus our model results, including the DD estimates can be biased.…”

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Price hike of staple food, nutritional impact and consumption adjustment: evidence from the 2005–2010 rice price increase in rural Bangladesh

Hasan

2018

Applied Economics

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This paper studies the nutritional impact and the adjustment in consumption as a result of the 2005-2010 rice price increase in rural Bangladesh. We compare the net rice buyers, who suffer from a negative income effect, with the self sufficient households. Our findings indicate that rural households in Bangladesh cope well with the surge in the domestic rice price as indicated by the absence of any effect on their calorie intake and food diversity. Income plays a crucial role in dietary diversity indicating the importance of effective income support programmes at the time of food price shocks.

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Engel curves and equivalence scales for Bangladesh

Cited by 19 publications

References 19 publications

The impact of the 2005–2010 rice price increase on consumption in rural Bangladesh

The impact of the 2005–2010 rice price increase on consumption in rural Bangladesh

Income and food Engel curves in Rwanda: a household microdata analysis

Price hike of staple food, nutritional impact and consumption adjustment: evidence from the 2005–2010 rice price increase in rural Bangladesh

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