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Estimation and analysis of food demand patterns in vietnam
Vu, Linh H. - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 1/11, pp. 1-17
-price elasticities. Rice has mean expenditure elasticity of 0.36 and mean own-price elasticity of -0.80. Using the estimated elasticities …, the study finds that when rice prices increase by 20 percent, average household welfare rises by 1.3 percent, yet it is …
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Calorie elasticities with income dynamics : evidence from the literature
Zhou, De; Yu, Xiaohua - 2014
This paper proposes a finite mixture model (FMM) to model the behavioral transition of calorie consumption with an assumption that nutrition consumption is a mixture of two different behavioral stages: a poor stage and an affluent stage. Based on 387 calorie-income elasticities collected from 90...
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The effect of food prices and household income on the British diet
De Agostini, Paola - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of price variations on the diet composition in Britain. It describes the dynamics of food demand in relation to food prices over time using data from the British National Food Survey (NFS) covering the period 1975-2000. Demand elasticities with respect to price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251127
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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures : evidence from a randomized experiment
Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2016
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534135
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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures : evidence from a randomized experiment
Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2016
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521158
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The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Armand, Alex - 2016
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984861
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The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures : evidence from a randomized experiment
Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Carneiro, Pedro; … - 2018
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of Macedonia, offering cash transfers to poor households, conditional on having their children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865448
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Shopping around : how households adjusted food spending over the Great Recession
Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2015
Over the Great Recession UK households reduced real food expenditure. We show that they were able to maintain the number of calories that they purchased, and the nutritional quality of these calories, by adjusting their shopping behaviour. We document the mechanisms that households used. We...
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Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity
Schwarze, Johannes - 2021
In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income … cardinal individual welfare function has to be specified. In addition, panel data enables different scale use by the … respondents to be controlled. The approach gives straightforward evidence: Obviously there is an optimal elasticity at which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321213
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Using panel data on income satisfaction to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity
Schwarze, Johannes - 2000
In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income … cardinal individual welfare function has to be specified. In addition, panel data enables different scale use by the … respondents to be controlled. The approach gives straightforward evidence: Obviously there is an optimal elasticity at which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001567021