Journal
NUTRIENTS
Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu11123077
Keywords
single-parent children; food consumption; nutrition intake; propensity score matching; compensation effect
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71473123]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
- Top-notch Academic Programs Project of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions [PPZY2015A067]
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The rapid economic and social development in the past decades has greatly increased the societal acceptance of divorce and non-marital pregnancies in China, which leads to a soaring number of single-parent children. This paper aimed to investigate the impact of having one parent absent on children' food consumption and nutrition status. We extracted 1114 children from a longitudinal household survey data in China, all of which were observed twice. Using the Propensity Score Matching and Difference-in-Difference methods, we found that being raised by one parent does not have a negative effect on children's food consumption and nutrition intake. On the contrary, single-parent families tend to provide more food to their children as a compensation for the absence of one parent and this compensation effect offsets the negative impact caused by declined family income. Particularly, urban, rich families had stronger compensation effect than other families with low and middle incomes.
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