A demand system analysis of food for poor and non poor households. The case of Argentina

The purpose of this paper is to provide some microeconomics tools to discuss and evaluate public policies that imply transfers of income from the public sector to the poor and their impact on their food demand and calories and nutrient intakes. This study is concerned with the differences in subsist...

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Autores principales: Berges, Miriam, Casellas, Karina
Formato: Documento de conferencia acceptedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2002
Materias:
Consumo de Alimentos
Demanda de Consumo
Gastos de Consumo
Consumidores
Poder de Compra
Ingresos de los Hogares
Nutrición Humana
Acceso en línea:http://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/1019/
http://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/1019/1/00349.pdf
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Nulan - Fac.Cs.Económicas (UNMdP) de Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP)
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topic Consumo de Alimentos
Demanda de Consumo
Gastos de Consumo
Consumidores
Poder de Compra
Ingresos de los Hogares
Nutrición Humana
spellingShingle Consumo de Alimentos
Demanda de Consumo
Gastos de Consumo
Consumidores
Poder de Compra
Ingresos de los Hogares
Nutrición Humana
Berges, Miriam
Casellas, Karina
A demand system analysis of food for poor and non poor households. The case of Argentina
description The purpose of this paper is to provide some microeconomics tools to discuss and evaluate public policies that imply transfers of income from the public sector to the poor and their impact on their food demand and calories and nutrient intakes. This study is concerned with the differences in subsistence expenditures, own-price elasticities and income elasticities for two households groups segmented by income: those people below the poverty guideline and those above it. The attention of our research is focused on a demand system for all food groups included in a National Consumption Survey and examines the household food consumption behavior by partitioning the sample. A complete system of demand equations, the Linear Expenditure System (LES), has been used due to its relative empirical expediency. Some additional econometric techniques to correct the bias in the parameter estimates were also applied because of the large number of zero observations in the data. Preliminary estimations following the procedure suggested in the Park et al. (1996) paper, gave some results that they were not as good as we expected and we finally use an alternative one based on Shonkwiler and Yen (1999).
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Casellas, Karina
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Casellas, Karina
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title A demand system analysis of food for poor and non poor households. The case of Argentina
title_short A demand system analysis of food for poor and non poor households. The case of Argentina
title_full A demand system analysis of food for poor and non poor households. The case of Argentina
title_fullStr A demand system analysis of food for poor and non poor households. The case of Argentina
title_full_unstemmed A demand system analysis of food for poor and non poor households. The case of Argentina
title_sort demand system analysis of food for poor and non poor households. the case of argentina
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