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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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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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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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Food security and household consumption patterns in Slovakia

Rizov, Marian; Cupák, Andrej; Pokrivčák, Ján - 2014 - Version: 25 November 2014

We investigate the food security situation of Slovak households in terms of both access to food and quality of the diet consumed by estimating food demand system and diet diversity demand models using household budget survey data over the period 2004 - 2010. In most samples demand for meat and...

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Chapter 14 Empirical Studies of Demand for the Performing Arts

Seaman, Bruce A. - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 415-472). 2006

rather than any inherent result of an acquired taste for the arts, while cross-price elasticity evidence is relatively weak …

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Fixed Costs, Failing Diets : Shopping Frequency and Food Choice

Colby, Scott - 2016

From 1998 to 2009 I find that the average time between U.S. households' grocery shopping trips has steadily increased from 4.7 to 6.2 days, and from 1998 to 2006 per capita monthly consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables has decreased from 130 to 112 oz. To understand these changes, a dynamic...

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Estimating Household Food Waste Using Food Acquisition Data

Yu, Yang - 2019

Measuring food waste at the individual household level has been nearly impossible because comprehensive, current data on uneaten food do not exist. By using food acquisition data, this article employs a new approach to estimating household-level food waste via a stochastic production frontier...

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Household Food Waste and Inefficiencies in Food Production

Smith, Travis; Landry, Craig E. - 2020

This paper investigates household food waste in the context of inefficient food production. Food waste is typically defined as the proportion of edible food that goes unconsumed, whereas inefficiency is measured by a household's inability to reach some technically efficient production frontier....

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Shelf Life, Consumption Uncertainty, and Food Waste

Yu, Yang; Roe, Brian E. - 2023

We study the consumer response to the extension of a perishable food item’s shelf life. We develop a theoretical model that describes a utility maximizing consumer planning for an uncertain number of consumption occasions. This model permits prediction of both changes in the purchase and waste...

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Food deserts and the causes of nutritional inequality

Allcott, Hunt; Diamond, Rebecca; Dubé, Jean-Pierre; … - 2018

We study the causes of "nutritional inequality": why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the U … local supply, we reject that neighborhood environments contribute meaningfully to nutritional inequality. Using a structural … reduces nutritional inequality by only nine percent, while the remaining 91 percent is driven by differences in demand. These …

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