Distributional Effects of Maize Price Increases in Malawi
研究了马拉维玉米价格上涨对不同类型家庭收入的影响，发现城市家庭受损，而农村净生产家庭受益，尤其贫困线以上的家庭收入增长更多。
In the wake of highly volatile world prices of staple commodities, we examine the impacts of increases in maize prices on various categories of households in Malawi. Using household-level data, changes in household income are calculated taking into account the net maize production status of the household and food price elasticities estimated from a censored demand system. While maize price increases have unequivocal deleterious effects on the incomes of urban households, rural households experience differential impacts. Net producing households in rural areas benefit from price increases with households above the poverty line obtaining proportionally higher incomes.