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Poor vs non-poor households in Uruguay : welfare differences from food price changes

Echeverría, Lucía; Molina, José Alberto - 2021

changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We …-poor households only to changes in beverage prices. Additionally, changes in household economic welfare due to price increases vary … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor …

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Why don’t households invest in latrines : health, prestige, or safety?

Groß, Elena; Günther, Isabel - 2014

70 percent of the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa does not use adequate sanitation facilities. In rural Benin, as much as 95 percent of the population has no access to improved sanitation. This paper explores why households remain without latrines analyzing a representative sample of 2000...

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Parental Preferences and Aspirations for Child Education, and Intra-household Resource Allocation : Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia

Adem, Jemal - 2022

This paper investigates the preference of parents for inter-child allocation of education investment in Ethiopia. It mainly focuses on the roles played by non-price factors of investment in child education. The study uses unique survey and experimental dataset disaggregated by individual...

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Rural Policies, Price Change and Poverty in Tanzania : An Agricultural Household Model-Based Assessment

Tiberti, Luca - 2015

consumption and production can bias the final impact on household welfare. The main objective of this study is thus to develop a … robust and comprehensive tool to evaluate the effect on household welfare of different agricultural policies in Tanzania and … simulate the effect on household welfare of a hypothetical 40% increase in the price of cereals and other crops and a …

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A new approach to estimate household food demand with panel data

Dong, Diansheng; Hayden, Stewart; McLaughlin, Patrick W. - In: Journal of applied economics 21 (2018) 1, pp. 122-136

This article develops a model of food demand in which the quality and quantity of food purchased and the inter-purchase time are determined simultaneously. We use this model to explore the relationship between a household's cereal purchases and its demographic variables. Households eligible to...

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Household Food Consumption in Turkey

Akbay, Cuma - 2010

This paper analyses Turkish household food consumption, using data from the 2003 Turkish Household Expenditure Survey. A complete demand system is estimated taking into account demographic differences and zero consumption. The highest expenditure elasticity is found for the meat and meat...

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Estimating Household Food Waste Using Food Acquisition Data

Yu, Yang - 2019

Measuring food waste at the individual household level has been nearly impossible because comprehensive, current data on uneaten food do not exist. By using food acquisition data, this article employs a new approach to estimating household-level food waste via a stochastic production frontier...

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Household Food Waste and Inefficiencies in Food Production

Smith, Travis; Landry, Craig E. - 2020

This paper investigates household food waste in the context of inefficient food production. Food waste is typically defined as the proportion of edible food that goes unconsumed, whereas inefficiency is measured by a household's inability to reach some technically efficient production frontier....

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US Household Demand for Organic Fruit

Nelson, Erik - 2019

We estimate US household monthly elasticities of demand for some of the more popular organic fruits. To our knowledge, this is the first US-wide, multi-year analysis of price and income elasticities for various organic fruits. We calculate elasticities of demand for low-income, middle class, and...

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Food price changes and consumer welfare in Ghana in the 1990s

Ackah, Charles (contributor); Appleton, Simon (contributor) - 2007

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