Du Mingling, Shi Junhui, Shi Songping, Wang Fang
College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.
Front Nutr. 2024 Mar 21;11:1335200. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1335200. eCollection 2024.
This study explores the influence of household technological advancements on children's nutritional intake, specifically within the context of the Chinese government's "Home Appliances Going to the Countryside" (HAGC) initiative. Utilizing data from the China Health and Nutrition Surveys of 2006, 2009, and 2011, we employed a Propensity Score Matching Difference-in-Differences (PSM-DID) framework to ascertain the repercussions of enhanced household technology on the dynamics of children's nutritional consumption patterns. Our analysis reveals that the HAGC-inspired integration of household appliances, including color televisions, washing machines, and refrigerators, has beneficially reshaped the nutritional consumption patterns of children, with a pronounced effect among female children. This finding remains consistent even when employing alternate methodological robustness tests. A deeper examination of the HAGC policy's mechanisms underscores the pivotal roles of parental time allocation, improved food storage capabilities, and augmented information accessibility as significant drivers bolstering children's nutritional intake. These insights bear considerable significance for strategizing interventions aimed at elevating the nutritional wellbeing of children in rural settings, offering valuable input for shaping public health policies tailored for such demographies.
本研究探讨家庭技术进步对儿童营养摄入的影响，特别是在中国政府“家电下乡”倡议的背景下。利用2006年、2009年和2011年中国健康与营养调查的数据，我们采用倾向得分匹配差分法（PSM-DID）框架来确定家庭技术增强对儿童营养消费模式动态的影响。我们的分析表明，受“家电下乡”启发而引入的包括彩色电视机、洗衣机和冰箱在内的家用电器，已有益地重塑了儿童的营养消费模式，对女童的影响尤为显著。即使采用其他方法稳健性检验，这一发现仍然一致。对“家电下乡”政策机制的深入研究强调了父母时间分配、改善食物储存能力和增加信息获取作为促进儿童营养摄入的重要驱动因素的关键作用。这些见解对于制定旨在提高农村儿童营养健康的干预策略具有重要意义，为制定针对此类人群的公共卫生政策提供了有价值的参考。
