This paper investigates the law of motion for the cross-section distribution of dietary energy supply (DES) in the world. This has been pursued using the distribution approach and a panel of 152 countries for the period 1961-2001. According to the empirical results, persistence in caloric...

Nonparametric (Kernel) regression analysis and micro-data from the Family Budget Survey (FBS) are used in this paper to estimate and to compare the Engel curves for food demand of the urban and the rural households. The empirical results suggest that the Characteristic Substitution Effects...

Parametric discrete choice models are used in agricultural economics to correct outcome equations for selectivity bias. This note assesses empirically the distributional assumptions underlying these models using the HH-test and microdata on food purchases by Greek households. High rates of...