Does economic growth always improve residents' dietary nutrition? Long-run relationships and phase differences in China from 1961 to 2018 (opens in new tab)

BackgroundChina has experienced sustained economic growth alongside major changes in agricultural institutions, food circulation, and market openness. Whether economic growth improves residents' dietary nutrition under these changing conditions remains unclear.MethodsWe use annual data for China from 1961 to 2018 to examine the long-run relationship between gross domestic product growth and residents' dietary nutrition. We employ autoregressive distributed lag models to identify the long-run ...