Shrinking Working-Age Population and Food Demand: Evidence from Rural China.

China is facing a rapidly aging population, and the proportion of the working-age population (WAP) is showing a decreasing trend.

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Discussion Based on the estimation results presented in Table 1 and Table 4 , it can be seen, first, that as income increased, the food consumption of Chinese rural residents showed an increasing trend; additionally, rural residents tended to consume more vegetables, fruits, and animal products.

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Third, the comprehensive results for food expenditure flexibility in the first stage of our calculation and the conditional expenditure elasticity in the second stage showed a trend of increasing income elasticity among rural residents as the proportion of household WAP decreased.

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