Food Quality, Calories, and Household Income

We investigate the relationship between calories, food quality and household per capita expenditure using regression and semiparametric methods on a sample of poor households from rural Mexico, where Programa de Apoyo Alimentario (PAL), a targeted nutritional programme, is operating. The semiparamet...

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Main Authors:	Skoufias, Emmanuel, Di Maro, Vincenzo, González-Cossío, Teresa, Rodríguez Ramirez, Sonia
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2013
Subjects:	calorie-income elasticity price of calories food consumption food quality
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13274

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spelling	okr-10986-132742021-04-23T14:03:07Z Food Quality, Calories, and Household Income Skoufias, Emmanuel Di Maro, Vincenzo González-Cossío, Teresa Rodríguez Ramirez, Sonia calorie-income elasticity price of calories food consumption food quality We investigate the relationship between calories, food quality and household per capita expenditure using regression and semiparametric methods on a sample of poor households from rural Mexico, where Programa de Apoyo Alimentario (PAL), a targeted nutritional programme, is operating. The semiparametric method yields an estimate of the elasticity between calories and expenditure of 0.39 below the median and 0.28 above. The corresponding estimates of the elasticity of the calorie price are 0.48 below the median and 0.45 above. We also examine the extent to which the expenditure elasticity of the calorie price is explained by substitution between and within major food groups. We find that there is a very high incidence of substitution within cereals (especially for poor households) and that between group substitution explains at most 59% of the income elasticity for food quality. These estimates suggest that the potential of a cash transfer programme to have a positive impact on the food diversity and the nutritional status of households is quite limited. 2013-04-25T20:31:57Z 2013-04-25T20:31:57Z 2011-06-24 Journal Article Applied Economics 0003-6846 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13274 en_US Applied Economics;43(28) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank Taylor and Francis Journal Article Mexico
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description	We investigate the relationship between calories, food quality and household per capita expenditure using regression and semiparametric methods on a sample of poor households from rural Mexico, where Programa de Apoyo Alimentario (PAL), a targeted nutritional programme, is operating. The semiparametric method yields an estimate of the elasticity between calories and expenditure of 0.39 below the median and 0.28 above. The corresponding estimates of the elasticity of the calorie price are 0.48 below the median and 0.45 above. We also examine the extent to which the expenditure elasticity of the calorie price is explained by substitution between and within major food groups. We find that there is a very high incidence of substitution within cereals (especially for poor households) and that between group substitution explains at most 59% of the income elasticity for food quality. These estimates suggest that the potential of a cash transfer programme to have a positive impact on the food diversity and the nutritional status of households is quite limited.
format	Journal Article
author	Skoufias, Emmanuel Di Maro, Vincenzo González-Cossío, Teresa Rodríguez Ramirez, Sonia
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title	Food Quality, Calories, and Household Income
title_short	Food Quality, Calories, and Household Income
title_full	Food Quality, Calories, and Household Income
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Food Quality, Calories, and Household Income

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