This Plan B paper improves and expands on the work of Wang (2011). Using data from the Consumer Expenditure survey and the American Community Survey we estimate regional food expenditures for 19 food categories in Southeast Minnesota and the Twin Cities Metro. Wang's original research almost...

Expenditures for Meat, Poultry, and Fish by Upper Income Families in the Twin Cities

Food Expenditures By Minneapolis-St. Paul Families: Variations and Implications

A Brief Analysis of Postwar Changes in Food Expenditures

Food Shopping Practices of Upper Income Families in Minneapolis-St. Paul

This paper reviews some of the recent major research findings concerning the effect of household behavior on food consumption and nutrition. Important extensions to the understanding of household behavior have been made in the areas of the impact of income and price changes, agricultural...

This paper investigates preference heterogeneity of wine consumers by using latent class models based on attitudinal questions. Such responses turn out to be an important source of additional information when the goal is to identify different groups of people with a similar wine preference...

Vacation Homes, Economic Development, and Local Government Policy in Rural Minnesota

This paper examines, within the Vietnamese context, the role of relative deprivation, as proposed by Stark (1984) and Stark and Taylor (1989, 1991), in the dynamics of internal migration. The conventional wisdom in the economics of migration literature, such as the model of Harris and Todaro...