Wives’ Value of Time and Food Consumed Away from Home in Taiwan*

Keng, Shao-Hsun; Lin, Chun-Hung A.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8381.2005.00215.x

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“…However, dual‐career families, especially in urban areas, are often highly correlated with family income, so we omit parental salary (a major source of earned income) from family income to separate income and opportunity cost effects of time. Using the family participation in the labor market or wage rate to capture the effect of the opportunity cost of time and family income, excluding earned income, for an income effect is an extensively used method in studies on household production and consumption, such as Yen (), Jensen and Yen (), and Keng and Lin (). In past studies, the wage rate was quite often used to capture time opportunity cost.…”

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Dietary Globalization in Chinese Breakfasts

Bai

McCluskey

Wang

et al. 2014

Canadian J Agri Economics

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Demand for nontraditional foods is on the rise in China. Data from household surveys and consumer food diaries in Beijing, Nanjing, and Chengdu are examined to measure the effects of demographics on consumption of nontraditional food products. We focus on bakery and dairy products, two categories of foods that are rarely consumed in traditional Chinese breakfasts. We find that income, time constraints, and education positively affect the inclusion of nontraditional foods in the breakfast meal. Our results suggest that younger consumers are leading the transition to new global consumption patterns that integrate nontraditional foods into urban Chinese breakfasts. The implications of these findings for wheat and milk production and processing industries are discussed.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dietary Globalization in Chinese Breakfasts

Bai

McCluskey

Wang

et al. 2014

Canadian J Agri Economics

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“…Grandparents are more involved in daily routines and spend more time with grandchildren whilst mothers were at work (Hamilton & Jenkins, 2015). Foods they choose for their grandchildren are generally considered healthy (Keng & Lin, 2005), which may reflect a lower intake of HSD amongst children. This study suggests that children of part-time employed fathers who used day care centres had low FV consumption.…”

Section: Nonparental Child Care Usagementioning

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Parental work status and children's dietary consumption: Australian evidence

Alsharairi

Somerset

2018

Int J Consumer Studies

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This study investigated associations between parents' work status and the dietary consumption patterns of Australian children, and whether such associations vary by parental education and usage of nonparental childcare. Data from the longitudinal study of Australian children at two waves from ages 2–3 years (n = 4601) to 4–5 years (n = 4381) were analysed. Logistic regression models were used to calculate odds ratios of children consuming (≥1 times/day) fruit and vegetables (FV), high fat foods (HFF), high sugar drinks (HSD), as well as evaluating the incidence of breakfast consumption. This was analysed against the employment status of parents including full‐time, part‐time and unemployed. Children of part‐time employed mothers were more likely to consume breakfast, and less likely to consume HSD compared with children of full‐time employed mothers. Children of part‐time employed fathers were less likely to consume FV and breakfast, and more likely to consume HSD compared with children of full‐time employed fathers. Children of nonemployed mothers were more likely to consume HFF, whilst those of nonemployed fathers were more likely to consume HSD and less likely to consume breakfast compared with other children. Amongst less‐educated parents, children of unemployed and part‐time employed parents were more likely to consume HFF and HSD and less likely to consume FV and breakfast compared with children of full‐time employed parents. Amongst highly educated parents, children of unemployed and part‐time employed mothers were less likely to consume HSD compared with children of full‐time employed mothers. Children of part‐time employed mothers who used family day care, day care centres and grandparent care were less likely to consume HSD and more likely to consume breakfast compared with children of full‐time employed mothers. Children of part‐time employed fathers and unemployed parents who used day care centres and grandparent care were less likely to consume FV and more likely to consume HFF compared with children of full‐time employed parents. Future studies should pursue a better understanding of the mechanisms for the adverse effects of parental work status on dietary consumption to develop and enhance specific interventions targeting these groups.

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“…Other food demand studies that incorporate household production theory are by Kinsey (1983), Keng and Lin (2005), Park and Capps (1997) and Sabates et al (2001).…”

Section: A Brief Review Of Demand Theory and Empirical Studies Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast, labor economists have made a working individual's wage the target of frequent empirical investigations, and predicted wage rates are regularly included in models explaining labor supply, demand for children and migration (Card 1999, Tokle and Huffman 1991, Blundell and MaCurdy 1999, Huffman and Feridhanusetyawan 2007. Keng and Lin (2005) show that as women's labor market earnings increase their household's demand for food-away-from-home increases. In addition, a few other studies have included the education of the household manager, a rough proxy for her opportunity cost of time, as a regressor in food demand equations.…”

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Household Production Theory and Models

Huffman

2011

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy

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The chapter focuses on household production theory and models for non-agricultural households, largely in developed countries. The objectives of the paper are: (1) to present several types of microeconomic models of household decision making and highlight their implications for empirical food demand studies and (2) to presents an empirical application of insights gained from household production theory for a household input demand system fitted to unique data on the US household sector over the post-World War II period, 1948II period, -1996. Regarding future research, suggestions are presented as to how food demand studies might build a stronger bridge to new models of household behavior, including a household production function and allocation of the household's time and full-income constraints. Abstract: The chapter focuses on household production theory and models for non-agricultural households, largely in developed countries. The objectives of the paper are: (1) to present several types of microeconomic models of household decision making and highlight their implications for empirical food demand studies and (2) to presents an empirical application of insights gained from household production theory for a household input demand system fitted to unique data on the US household sector over the post-World War II period, 1948II period, -1996 Regarding future research, suggestions are presented as to how food demand studies might build a stronger bridge to new models of household behavior, including a household production function and allocation of the household's time and full-income constraints. .

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Wives’ Value of Time and Food Consumed Away from Home in Taiwan*

Cited by 15 publications

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Dietary Globalization in Chinese Breakfasts

Dietary Globalization in Chinese Breakfasts

Parental work status and children's dietary consumption: Australian evidence

Household Production Theory and Models

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