The model for analyzing the impact of the Food Stamp Program on food purchased for use at home indicates that no continuous relationship exists between at-home food expenditures and income of food stamp participant households As previous studies have not allowed for this fact, they may have...

Households participating in the Food Stamp Program increased their food expenditures an average of 10 percent Their food-at-home expenditures rose 19 percent while food-away-from-home expenditures declined 36 percent Increases occurred for cereal and dairy products, eggs, nonalcoholic beverages,...

Consumer preferences for meat may be changing, If so, market clearing retail prices will be higher or lower than If no such changes occurred It Will be several year,s before statistical analysts have enough price-quantity observations to determine whether these alleged shifts m preference for...

A Comprehensive model of U S agriculture incorporates the spatial pattern of supply, resource use, and the technical structure of agricultural production that is generated by a linear programming component, and it utilizes detailed information on market structure, processes, and prices that is...

Recursive aggregate demand and supply functions are used to simulate the ability of the farm sector to adjust during the 1970's to three policy alternatives. Different output demand elasticities and shifts in the supply and demand for farm output were assumed. Within reasonable bounds,...

As an aid to providing expanded and more complete information to agricultural policymakers, an agricultural policy simulator (POLYSIM) was developed and used to analyze alternative agricultural policy proposals and economic conditions. This report describes what POLYSIM does and the types of...