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Snap and Food Consumption : A Collective Household Approach with Homescan Data

Lin, Xirong - 2022

I study how individual preferences and bargaining power within couples affects the impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Using longitudinal Homescan data, I find that wives have stronger preferences for SNAP-eligible food than husbands, and that household demand...

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The impact of food price shocks on weight loss : evidence from the adult population of Tanzania

García-Germán, Sol; Romeo, Alessandro; Magrini, Emiliano - 2016

Undernourishment is still widespread in Tanzania, while obesity is becoming an issue of magnitude similar to undernutrition in the country. In this paper we examined the impact of an increase in maize prices on the nutritional status of Tanzania's adult population. We found that undernutrition...

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Food Demand and Cash Transfers : A Collective Household Approach with Homescan Data

Lin, Xirong - 2022

I study how individual preferences and bargaining power within older couples affects the impact of cash transfers on food demand. Using longitudinal Homescan data, I find that wives have stronger preferences for food than husbands, and that household demand patterns for food are affected by...

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Inequality and mobility analysis by the Hungarian Rotation Panel, 1993-1998

Kapitány, Zsuzsa; Molnár, György - 2002

We investigate the trends of inequalities and mobility of income, expenditure and stock of durables between 1993 and 1998 in Hungary. In 1996-8 the stagnating level of inequalities is coupled with relatively low and decreasing mobility. The relationship between inequalities and mobility fastens...

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Poor vs non-poor households in Uruguay : welfare differences from food price changes

Echeverría, Lucía; Molina, José Alberto - 2021

changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We …-poor households only to changes in beverage prices. Additionally, changes in household economic welfare due to price increases vary … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor …

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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables

Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

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Estimation and analysis of food demand patterns in vietnam

Linh Hoang Vu - 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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The decline of home cooked food

Griffith, Rachel; Jin, Wenchao; Lechene, Valérie - 2021

The share of home-cooked food in the diet of UK households declined from the 1980s. This was contemporaneous with a decline in the market price of ingredients for home cooking relative to ready-to-eat foods. We consider a simple model of food consumption and time use which captures the key...

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Censored Demand System Estimation with Endogenous Expenditures in Clustered Samples : An Application to Food Demand in Mozambique

Barslund, Mikkel - 2015

We address the issue of endogenous expenditures in the context of a censored demand system by an augmented regression approach estimated with a two-step estimator. An application to food demand by urban households in Mozambique shows that accounting for endogeneity is potentially important in...

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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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