We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally …

literacy as a potential salient determinant of household-level food security. In light of the recent financial crisis and the …

lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … China's poverty can be attributed to households living outside classified poor areas. People living in a household with many … members, those with a household head with a short education, and children face higher poverty risks than other persons …

among household members, the household's expenditure burden, as well as the lack of financial assets. Further, a long … education of the household head and membership in the Communist Party reduces the probability of receiving social assistance …

do so by combining household data with population census and village survey records. Our results show that conditional on … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over …

. Determinants of persistent and temporary poverty in rural China differ due to location as well as household characteristics …