Using Family Expenditure Survey data for five survey years over the period 1973 to 1993, a Box-Cox double-hurdle model of the participation and expenditure decisions regarding meat consumption has been estimated. Particular attention has been given to single-adult households. The effects of...

Duration Analysis, which allows the timing of an event to be explored in a dynamic framework, is used to model the adoption of organic horticultural technology in the UK. The influence of a range of economic and non-economic determinants is explored using discrete time models. The empirical...

In this study the observed variation in meat and fish consumption in Britain since 1960 is decomposed into those changes which are due to economic factors (relative prices and expenditure) and those which may be attributable to shifts in consumer preferences. The decomposition is based on a...