A demand systems analysis of food commodities by US households segmented by income Academic Article

abstract

• Using the 1987-88 Nationwide Food Consumption Survey, twelve food commodity groups were analyzed according to household poverty status. Parameter estimates were used to obtain subsistence expenditures, own-price elasticities, expenditure elasticities, and income elasticities. Own-price elasticities were similar between the income groups for most commodities. However, income elasticities were consistently higher for the lower-income group. The use of average estimates of price and income elasticities for the population as a whole for the projection of individual commodity demands is not likely to be successful if notable changes are evident in income distribution.

authors

• Capps, Oral
• Park, John

published proceedings

• AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

altmetric score

• 6

author list (cited authors)

• Park, J. L., Holcomb, R. B., Raper, K. C., & Capps, O.

citation count

• 101

complete list of authors

• Park, JL||Holcomb, RB||Raper, KC||Capps, O

publication date

• May 1996

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• American Journal of Agricultural Economics  Journal

keywords

• Food Demand Analysis
• Generalized Heckman Procedure
• Income
• Poverty Status

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2307/1243703

start page

• 290

end page

• 300

volume

• 78

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1243703