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...

[spa] Evaluacion de los efectos presupuestarios y redistributivos de reformas de la fiscalidad indirecta francesa . por Véronique Nichèle y Jean-Marc Robin . El présente artîculo esta dedicado a la evaluacion del impacto de dos reformas de la fiscalidad indirecta francesa : aplicaciôn de...

This article studies taxation schemes which improve the sustainability of food purchases by reducing environmental emissions with focus on nutritional and socioeconomic effects. Food consumption is estimated to be responsible for 30% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Europe. Among them meats...

[ger] Umverteilungspolitische Auswirkungen und Erhöhung der Wirksamkeit . einer Reform der Wohnungsbeihilfe in Frankreich : . eine mikroökonomische Untersuchung, . von Véronique Nichèle.. . Die Auswirkungen der Reform auf den Wohlstand der zur Miete wohnenden privaten Haushalte werden auf...

Les modes de consommation de repas ont varié non seulement avec l'évolution des revenus des ménages mais aussi avec les transformations du travail féminin. Le recours à la main-d'oeuvre féminine a accompagné le développement des services dans l'économie, induisant un transfert des...

This article assesses the effects of a "fat tax" on the nutrients purchased by French households across different income groups. This is done by making a preliminary estimation of price elasticities using a complete demand system on household scanner data, and by calculating nutrient...

Empirical demand systems that do not impose unreasonable restrictions on preferences are typically non-linear. We show, however, that all popular systems possess the property of conditional linearity. A computationally attractive iterated linear least squares estimator (ILLE) is proposed for...