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

Autores
Berges, Miriam; Casellas, Karina
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
documento de conferencia
Estado
versión aceptada
Descripción
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).
Fil: Berges, Miriam. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales; Argentina.
Fil: Casellas, Karina. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales; Argentina.
Fuente
10 Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists, Zaragoza [ESP], August 28-31, 2002.
Materia
Consumo de Alimentos
Demanda de Consumo
Gastos de Consumo
Consumidores
Poder de Compra
Ingresos de los Hogares
Nutrición Humana
Nivel de accesibilidad
acceso abierto
Condiciones de uso
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Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A demand system analysis of food for poor and non poor households. The case of Argentina
title A demand system analysis of food for poor and non poor households. The case of Argentina
spellingShingle A demand system analysis of food for poor and non poor households. The case of Argentina
Berges, Miriam
Consumo de Alimentos
Demanda de Consumo
Gastos de Consumo
Consumidores
Poder de Compra
Ingresos de los Hogares
Nutrición Humana
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 A demand system analysis of food for poor and non poor households. The case of Argentina
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Berges, Miriam
Casellas, Karina
author Berges, Miriam
author_facet Berges, Miriam
Casellas, Karina
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author2 Casellas, Karina
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Consumo de Alimentos
Demanda de Consumo
Gastos de Consumo
Consumidores
Poder de Compra
Ingresos de los Hogares
Nutrición Humana
topic Consumo de Alimentos
Demanda de Consumo
Gastos de Consumo
Consumidores
Poder de Compra
Ingresos de los Hogares
Nutrición Humana
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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).
Fil: Berges, Miriam. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales; Argentina.
Fil: Casellas, Karina. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales; Argentina.
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