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Advertising, Promotion, and Competition: A Survey with Special Reference to Food

Connor, John M. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1981) 1

This article surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the economics of advertising during the last decade The survey notes several promising advances in theoretical modeling of the role of advertising in consumer choice and social welfare Numerous empirical investigations of food and...

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The Demand for Food Consumed at Home and Away from Home

Lamm, R. McFall Jr. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1982) 3

Over the last 20 years, consumers have spent a declining portion of their income on food for consumption at home, while the share of income spent on meals purchased at restaurants, cafeterias, and fast-food chains has held constant This article attempts to explain this phenomenon by estimating a...

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Coffee Consumption and Prices in the United States

Daly, Rex F. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1958) 3

The current situation and prospects for coffee are of widespread interest to American consumers and to those who supply them, and it is of vital interest to the many Latin American countries that depend on coffee as a primary source of foreign exchange earnings. The smaller per capita use of...

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FOOD STAMP PROGRAM IMPACTS ON HOUSEHOLD FOOD PURCHASES: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Salathe, Larry E - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1980) 2

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...

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Productivity and Food Processing Costs

Waldorf, William H. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1962) 1

productivity research, and who has watched the continuing rise in marketing charges for farm products, the inevitable question is …: What can measures of productivity tell us about the continued rise in the Farm-Food Marketing Bill and the Farm-Food Market … a third of the Farm-Food Marketing Bill. The eventual product of this area of research should advance our knowledge of …

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CRITERIA FOR CRITIQUING SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPUTER MODELS WITH APPLICATION TO BARR-GALE MODEL FOR CONSUMER PRICE INDEX OF FOOD

Morland, Howard; Kannan, Narasimhan P.; Meadows, Dennis L. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1977) 1

The authors propose six questions relevant to the evaluation of all social system models, and apply them to the Barr-Gale model for forecasting the Consumer Price Index for Food. While analysts invest much effort in developing new economic models, relatively little attention is paid to...

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A Quarterly Forecasting Model for the Consumer Price Index for Food

Barr, Terry N.; Gale, Hazen F. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1973) 1

Statistics. The'model relates retail food prices to prices received by farmers and to wage rates in food marketing industries …

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Effects of Relative Price Changes on U.S. Food Sectors, 1967-78

Schluter, Gerald; Lee, Gene K. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1981) 1

For a half-century the parity ratio has served as the most commonly used measure of the effects of relative price changes on the farm economy The authors present a consistent economic model which measures the price-related income effects of relative price changes in selected sectors of the U.S....

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Potential Effects of Fat-Controlled, Low-Cholesterol Diet on U.S. Food Consumption

Le Bovit, Corinne; Gale, Hazen F. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1971) 3

If the entire U.S. population were to select one food pattern among those that meet the American Heart Association recommendations for a fat-controlled, low-cholesterol diet, calorie intake would decline about 13 percent compared with present consumption. The cost would be about a tenth higher,...

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Social Backgrounds and Occupational Commitment of Male Wageworkers in Agriculture

Duncan, Otis Dudley; Cowhig, James D. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1966) 4

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