TABLE 1.

Means and Standard Deviations of Key Variables

	Control	0.1 yuan/jin subsidy	0.2 yuan/jin subsidy	0.3 yuan/jin subsidy
Panel A: Hunan
Family size	2.8	2.9	3.0	2.7
	[1.3]	[1.3]	[1.4]	[1.1]
No. of children	0.46	0.46	0.44	0.38
	[0.68]	[0.6883]	[0.6687]	[0.61]
Female head	0.34	0.37	0.37	0.40
	[0.47]	[0.4844]	[0.4844]	[0.49]
Income per capita	604	557	703	751
	[1227]	[797]	[959]	[2451]
Expenditure per capita	316	330	299	361
	[252]	[316]	[290]	[483]
Calories per capita	1767	1783	1817	1851
	[628]	[588]	[549]	[601]
Rice per capita	317	325	340	338
	[122]	[129]	[128]	[120]
Meat per capita	50.4	42.4	40.7	52.8
	[81.6]	[61.0]	[59.2]	[70.3]
Rice calorie share	0.639	0.636	0.645	0.642
	[0.188]	[0.186]	[0.158]	[0.152]
Observations	161	162	162	159
Panel B: Gansu
Family size	2.9	2.7	2.7	2.7
	[1.1]	[1.1]	[0.95]	[1.1]
No. of children	0.56	0.55	0.54	0.54
	[0.64]	[0.69]	[0.66]	[0.60]
Female head	0.44	0.40	0.44	0.44
	[0.50]	[0.49]	[0.50]	[0.50]
Income per capita	694	694	724	726
	[663]	[652]	[800]	[697]
Expenditure per capita	202	228	198	216
	[247]	[214]	[231]	[201]
Calories per capita	1737	1732	1716	1655
	[496]	[553]	[500]	[520]
Wheat per capita	353	353	341	329
	[132]	[147]	[136]	[120]
Meat per capita	13.9	9.7	13.5	13.6
	[30.9]	[23.8]	[33.7]	[31.1]
Wheat calorie share	0.691	0.691	0.678	0.680
	[0.176]	[0.172]	[0.181]	[0.165]
Observations	163	162	162	162

Notes: Standard deviations in brackets. All consumption figures are in grams per capita. Calorie share is the percent of total calories attributable to the particular food category. Income and expenditure per capita are in 2006 yuan (Rmb). 1 jin = 500g. The only pair-wise difference that is statistically significant (at the 10 percent level) is meat per capita consumption in Hunan for the 0.3yuan/jin versus 0.2yuan/jin groups.