Caillavet, France; Nichele, Veronique; Robin, Jean-Marc - In: European Review of Agricultural Economics 25 (1998) 2, pp. 170-87
The purpose of this paper is to study the trade-off between purchases and home production of food. We develop a simple household production model which predicts a zero elasticity of home production with respect to total expenditure. Focusing on vegetables, we use data from the 1991 French...