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Income and Price Elasticities of Demand in South Africa: An Application of the Linear Expenditure System [PDF]

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Economics, 2015
AbstractThis paper investigates the expenditure patterns of South African households using detailed cross‐sectional expenditure and price data that varies across region and time. Linear expenditure system parameter estimates are used to calculate income and price elasticities for a number of product categories at different points of the income ...
Rulof Petrus Burger   +3 more
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Aggregation effects on price and expenditure elasticities in a quadratic almost ideal demand system [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2004
Abstract.  While it is well known that demand elasticities calculated at the macro level will in general differ from those calculated at the micro level because of aggregation effects, there remain the questions of how large the effects are and how they vary with the degree of inequality in the income distribution.
Frank T. Denton, Dean C. Mountain
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Modelling the health impact of food taxes and subsidies with price elasticities: The case for additional scaling of food consumption using the total food expenditure elasticity [PDF]

open access: yesPLOS ONE, 2020
Background Food taxes and subsidies are one intervention to address poor diets. Price elasticity (PE) matrices are commonly used to model the change in food purchasing. Usually a PE matrix is generated in one setting then applied to another setting with differing starting consumption and prices of foods.
Blakely, T   +8 more
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The Effect of Price and Socio-Economic Level on the Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSB): The Case of Ecuador. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
The objective of this article is to estimate the own-price, cross-price and income elasticities of demand for SSB in Ecuador, as an indispensable step for predicting a reduction in the consumption of said beverages caused by the potential implementation ...
Guillermo Paraje
doaj   +2 more sources

Food demand estimation from consumption and expenditure data: Meat demand in Nigeria

open access: yesAgricultural and Resource Economics Review
Hidden consumption is a potential problem when consumers’ expenditure data from household surveys are used in demand analyses. A solution is to collect and use actual consumption data.
Olumide Aborisade   +2 more
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ESTIMATION OF PRICE ELASTICITIES AND EXPENDITURE FOR THE MAIN IMPORTANT FOOD COMMODITIES IN EGYPT

open access: yesMinia Journal of Agricultural Research and Development, 2019
The objective of this research was to estimate price (direct and cross) and expenditure elasticities for major food commodities in Egypt. The food commodities were divided into six groups depending on the homogeneity within each group of commodities and ...
Moataz Mostafa, E. Sabry, Z. Deyi
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Preference Shifts During Health Shocks: Foreign Tourists’ Expenditure–Price Elasticity Throughout the Pandemic

open access: yesJournal of Travel Research, 2023
This study evaluates the changes in the expenditure–price elasticities of foreign tourists in the summer periods of 2019, 2020, and 2021. We first develop a theoretical characterization that combines microeconomic, loss aversion, price inequality and ...
David Boto‐García, J. F. Baños Pino
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Determinants of Food Expenditure Patterns: Evidence from U.S. Consumers in the Context of the COVID-19 Price Shocks

open access: yesSustainability, 2022
This study examined the factors that determine U.S. household expenditure patterns for food products in the context of exceptional price shocks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This research relied on the Consumer Expenditure Diary Survey (CEX) for the year
Clement O. Codjia, S. Saghaian
semanticscholar   +1 more source

HOUSEHOLD DEMAND SYSTEM OF AFRICAN INDIGENOUS VEGETABLES IN KENYA [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2022
Research background: Vegetables are important sources of nutrition to many households. Understanding the household demand system of leafy African indigenous vegetables (AIVs) in Kenya could enhance designing strategies to increase their consumption ...
Eric Obedy GIDO
doaj   +1 more source

Food demand in Slovenia

open access: yesActa Agriculturae Slovenica, 2007
The objective of this research is to analyse food consumption patterns in Slovenia. Cross-sectional household data from Household budget survey in year 2001 were used.
Darja REGORŠEK, Emil ERJAVEC
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