relation: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/25633/
title: Calorie intake and income in China
creator: Simioni, Michel
creator: Thomas-Agnan, Christine
creator: Trinh, Thi Huong
subject: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
description: Recent research on calorie intake and income relationship abounds with parametric models but usually gives inconclusive results. Our paper aims at contributing to this literature by using recent advances in the estimation of generalized additive models with penalized spline regression smoothing (GAM). These semi-parametric models enable mixing parametric and nonparametric functions of explanatory variables and enlarge the distribution of the response variable. The revealed performance test (Racine and Parmeter, 2014), supported by simulation data, shows that GAM models outperform the parametric models. Using data from CHNS in 2006, 2009 and 2011, we find a positive and statistically significant relationship between household calorie intake and household income for the poor. Then the impact of increasing income on calorie consumption slows down for the middle class and the rich. In addition, we find that income-calorie elasticities are generally small, ranging from 0.07 to 0.12.
publisher: Spinger
date: 2016
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/25633/1/wp_tse_826.pdf
identifier:   Simioni, Michel <https://www.idref.fr/178408085>, Thomas-Agnan, Christine <https://www.idref.fr/076657833> and Trinh, Thi Huong <https://www.idref.fr/230862144>  (2016)  Calorie intake and income in China: New evidence using semiparametric modelling with generalized additive models.   Vietnam Journal of Mathematical Applications, 14 (1).  pp. 11-26.       
relation: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/31807
language: en