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This book discusses the likely impacts of health information on the demand for various foods in various countries and among various socioeconomic groups. The effects of types of information such as food scares related to mad cow disease and advertising are also discussed. The book serves as reference for researchers in the food industry and government, as well as a supplementary textbook in courses in applied microeconomics, consumer demand, health economics and food consumption and nutrition. The book is based on papers presented in the mini-symposium on 'Effects of Health Information on the Demand for Food: EU and US Experiences' organized as part of the XXIV International Conference of Agricultural Economists held in Berlin, Germany during 13-18 August 2000.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- PART ONE OVERVIEW AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 1. Overview -- 2. Chinese Rural Development: Historical Parallels and Recent Hypotheses -- 3. Economic vs. Noneconomic Factors in Chinese Rural Development -- PART TWO INSTITUTIONS -- Introduction to Part Two -- 4. Technological Choice in Chinese Agriculture -- Discussion -- 5. Institutional Organizations in Taiwan's Agricultural Development -- Discussion -- PART THREE PRICES, COSTS, AND INCOMES -- Introduction to Part Three -- 6. Prices, Income, and Farm Policy in Taiwan -- Discussion -- 7. Prices, Costs, and Farm Income in Mainland China: Rules of Farmer Behavior in a Uniquely Mixed Economy -- Discussion -- PART FOUR TRADE AND COMPETITION -- Introduction to Part Four -- 8. China's Agricultural Trade and Prospects in Foreign Competition -- Discussion -- 9 Taiwan's Agricultural Trade and Prospects in Foreign Competition -- Discussion -- PART FIVE GRAIN AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT -- 10. The Growing Grain Deficit and Its Implications for China's Developmental Strategy -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.

This study evaluated the gains in capacity and mode of performance made by 57 elderly blind persons who were clients of an Independent Living Services Program in Mississippi. It was found that the gains in capacity were significant in all areas and the gains in mode of performance were significant for 41 of the 47 skill areas that were assessed.

AbstractThe present study examined whether perceptual individuation training with other‐race faces could reduce preschool children's implicit racial bias. We used an 'angry = outgroup' paradigm to measure Chinese children's implicit racial bias against African individuals before and after training. In Experiment 1, children between 4 and 6 years were presented with angry or happy racially ambiguous faces that were morphed between Chinese and African faces. Initially, Chinese children demonstrated implicit racial bias: they categorized happy racially ambiguous faces as own‐race (Chinese) and angry racially ambiguous faces as other‐race (African). Then, the children participated in a training session where they learned to individuate African faces. Children's implicit racial bias was significantly reduced after training relative to that before training. Experiment 2 used the same procedure as Experiment 1, except that Chinese children were trained with own‐race Chinese faces. These children did not display a significant reduction in implicit racial bias. Our results demonstrate that early implicit racial bias can be reduced by presenting children with other‐race face individuation training, and support a linkage between perceptual and social representations of face information in children.

OBJECTIVES—To examine the association between the longest held occupation in a lifetime and risk of disability in activities of daily living (ADL) among elderly people (65 years and older) in northern Taiwan. METHODS—A case-control design was used nested within two cohorts of a total of 2198 elderly people who had been followed up either between 1993 and 1997 or between 1996 and 1997. Cases were 360 elderly people with ADL disability within the study period. For each case, two sex matched controls were randomly sampled from the pool of elderly people free from ADL disability. Occupational data were collected through interviews conducted in 1997. Performed job contents were classified into occupational categories and occupation based social classes. Unconditional logistic regression techniques were used to estimate relative risk and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) of ADL disability. RESULTS—Compared with people who were former legislators, government administrators, or business executives and managers, workers in agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, or fishing (odds ratio (OR) 1.9, 95% CI 1.1 to 3.5) and workers in craft and related trades (OR 1.9, 95% CI 1.1 to 3.4) had significantly increased risks of subsequent ADL disability. Differential risks of ADL disability were found across social classes, with a significant dose-response trend in which unskilled blue collar workers had an 1.8 times higher risk of ADL disability than higher social classes of white collar workers. CONCLUSIONS—After adjustment for education, there was still an inverse relation between risk of ADL disability and social class. Although total control for all the known risk factors for ADL disability among elderly people was impossible, the results tend to suggest a potential for an effect of longest held occupation in a lifetime on risk of ADL disability. Keywords: activity of daily living; occupation; socioeconomic status