Food consumption in Argentina: The Deaton-Paxson puzzle beyond mean effects

Deaton, A., and C. Paxson (1998. "Economies of Scale, Household Size, and the Demand for Food." Journal of Political Economy 106 (5): 897–930. doi: 10.1086/250035) found the opposite to what theory predicts: food share declines with household size, keeping household per capita expenditure...

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Autores principales: Echeverría, Lucía, Molina, José Alberto
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Walter de Gruyter 2023
Materias:
Ley de Engel
Economías de Escala
Consumo de Alimentos
Regresión por Cuantiles
Acceso en línea:https://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/id/eprint/3837/
https://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/id/eprint/3837/1/echeverria-molina-2023.pdf
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Nulan - Fac.Cs.Económicas (UNMdP) de Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP)
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topic Ley de Engel
Economías de Escala
Consumo de Alimentos
Regresión por Cuantiles
spellingShingle Ley de Engel
Economías de Escala
Consumo de Alimentos
Regresión por Cuantiles
Echeverría, Lucía
Molina, José Alberto
Food consumption in Argentina: The Deaton-Paxson puzzle beyond mean effects
topic_facet Ley de Engel
Economías de Escala
Consumo de Alimentos
Regresión por Cuantiles
description Deaton, A., and C. Paxson (1998. "Economies of Scale, Household Size, and the Demand for Food." Journal of Political Economy 106 (5): 897–930. doi: 10.1086/250035) found the opposite to what theory predicts: food share declines with household size, keeping household per capita expenditure constant. This paper aims to explore the relationship between food demand and household size beyond the conditional mean of food consumption for Argentina using a quantile regression technique. Because standard analysis focuses on the average effects, the existence of the paradox at the lower and upper ends of the conditional food share distribution remains unknown. We find negative and significant effects of household size on food share at the upper tail of the conditional food share distribution, but we find no evidence of the puzzle for households with relatively lower food share that are reasonably richer. Results show the importance of accounting for distributional effects to obtain a complete understanding of food consumption behavior and sheds light on the crucial role of economies of scale in poor households.
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Molina, José Alberto
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title Food consumption in Argentina: The Deaton-Paxson puzzle beyond mean effects
title_short Food consumption in Argentina: The Deaton-Paxson puzzle beyond mean effects
title_full Food consumption in Argentina: The Deaton-Paxson puzzle beyond mean effects
title_fullStr Food consumption in Argentina: The Deaton-Paxson puzzle beyond mean effects
title_full_unstemmed Food consumption in Argentina: The Deaton-Paxson puzzle beyond mean effects
title_sort food consumption in argentina: the deaton-paxson puzzle beyond mean effects
publisher Walter de Gruyter
publishDate 2023
url https://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/id/eprint/3837/
https://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/id/eprint/3837/1/echeverria-molina-2023.pdf
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