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The impact of online shopping on food stockpiling behaviour in China.

Authors :
Xia, Lian
Ma, Wanglin
Wang, Dan
Li, Jian
Source :
Applied Economics; Oct2024, Vol. 56 Issue 49, p6039-6053, 15p
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

Food stockpiling is a common strategy to cope with food shortages, especially during major crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper investigates the effects of online shopping on household food stockpiling behaviour, using data collected from urban residents in China. Unlike previous studies considering only binary decisions, we take into account two-stage decisions (whether to stockpile and how much to stockpile). We employ a novel double-hurdle two-stage least square approach to model the sequential decision-making process and to address the endogeneity issue of online shopping. The empirical results show that online shopping significantly increases the probability that households choose to stockpile food and stockpiling ratio. Online shoppers in Eastern China are more likely to stockpile food, while their counterparts in the Western region tend to have a higher food stockpiling ratio. Online shopping significantly increases stockpiling ratio of perishable food such as fruits and vegetables relative to non-perishable food such as grains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00036846
Volume :
56
Issue :
49
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Applied Economics
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
179483131
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2267816