Food Standards and Welfare: General Equilibrium Effects
研究高标准食品链扩张对家庭福利的一般均衡效应,通过中国数据模拟发现对农村贫困家庭的影响取决于多种因素。
Abstract We analyse the general equilibrium effects of the growth of high standard food chains on household welfare. To measure structural production changes and welfare effects on rural and urban households, our model has two types of agents, five kinds of products and four types of factors. We calibrate the model using a Chinese dataset. The simulation results show that the effects on poor rural households depend on a variety of factors, including the nature of the shocks leading to the expansion of high standard sector, production technologies, trade effects, spillover effects on low standard markets, factor market constraints and labour market effects.