Does online food shopping boost dietary diversity? Application of an endogenous switching model with a count outcome variable.
Agric Food Econ
; 10(1): 30, 2022.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2153683
ABSTRACT
Increasingly, rural households in developing countries are shopping for food online, and the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend. In parallel, dietary guidelines worldwide recommend eating a balanced and healthy diet. With this in mind, this study explores whether online food shopping boosts dietary diversity-defined as the number of distinct food groups consumed-among rural households in China. Because people choose to shop for food online, it is important to account for the self-selection bias inherent in online food shopping. Accordingly, we estimate the treatment effects of online food shopping on dietary diversity using the endogenous switching model with a count outcome variable. The results indicate that online food shopping increases dietary diversity by 7.34%. We also find that education, asset ownership, and knowing the government's dietary guidelines are the main factors driving rural households' decisions to shop for food online.
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Language:
English
Journal:
Agric Food Econ
Year:
2022
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Article
Affiliation country:
S40100-022-00239-2
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