The purpose of the study is to examine the dietary consequences of greater consumption of vegetables by type and source … suggest that the effect of vegetable consumption on diet varies greatly by type of vegetables and where the food is prepared …

We analyze the consequences of seasonal variation in maternal consumption on child health using two nationally … representative Gambian household surveys. Seasonal fluctuation in consumption stems from difficulties borrowing when incomes are low … in farm households born during dry seasons (February-June) fare considerably worse than siblings born in other seasons. …

analysis and sheds light on the pulse crop production, price, trade, and consumption patterns observed in the developing world … capita consumption is observed within the context of a declining overall historical trend. This declining historical trend in … per capita consumption of pulses is expected to continue into the future. Dietary patterns are changing all over the world …

generated by a computer-simulated model of consumption dynamics presented in Aversi et al. (1999). We find that the model, under …In studying individual consumption behavior, an important issue is the analysis of the relation between commodity … non-linearities in total expenditure; (ii) find out whether there exist necessary and sufficient conditions on the across-households …

We use micro data on young married households from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers in order to analyze the … importance of borrowing constraints in Japan. We find (1) that 8 to 15 percent of young married Japanese households are borrowing … and for the subsample of unconstrained households. These results suggest that the life cycle/permanent income hypothesis …