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Household Demand (household + demand)

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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting100%
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Agricultural Economics & Resource Management50%

Selected Abstracts

Spanish Household Demand for Seafood

JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Issue 3 2001
Justo Manrique
Seafood is an important food commodity in Spain, the second largest consuming nation of seafood in the world. Today, several changes in demographics, socioeconomic factors, and lifestyle changes have affected demand for seafood products. Double-hurdle models allow an examination of Spanish household expenditures on these products and explicitly account for the value of women's time. The empirical evidence shows that the set of statistically significant factors in the participation and expenditure equations is not the same for fresh and processed seafood goods. Income and household demographic variables are important determinants of both participation and expenditures on seafood products. In addition, the value of women's time affects expenditures on processed products, which include frozen, cured, and canned seafood goods. [source]

Demand for milk labels in Germany: organic milk, conventional brands, and retail labels

AGRIBUSINESS : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, Issue 2 2008
Astrid Jonas
German milk brands have come under significant price pressure due to the introduction of retail labels at the lower price end and of organic milk as a premium product. This analysis provides elasticity estimates by milk types and analyzes sociodemographic determinants of demand. A censored system of German household demand for organic and conventional milk, further separated into retail-label and brand milk, is estimated using a two-step procedure on data from the 2000,2003 German GfK ConsumerScan Houshold Survey. Own-price elasticities of conventional milk are around unity, but the demand for organic milk is very price-elastic. Results suggest that the price of organic milk should be considered as an important marketing instrument. [JEL-Code: D12, Q11]. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

Does increase in women's income relative to men's income increase food calorie intake in poor households?

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Issue 3-4 2010
Evidence from Nigeria
Nigeria; Intrahousehold redistribution of income; Women's income share elasticity; Calorie consumption Abstract This article addresses the important but not widely investigated question of how calorie consumption in African low-income households would respond to intrahousehold redistribution of income from men to women. Specifically, I use survey data on a sample of 480 households from semirural areas of south-western Nigeria to analyze the response of per capita calorie intake to changes in women's share of household income, after controlling for per capita income and demographic characteristics at individual, household, and community levels. I also examine the effect of marginal increases in household income on per capita calorie intake conditional on the income distribution factor: women's share of income. My results suggest that redistributing household income from men to women would neither raise per capita food energy intake nor increase the quality of food calorie source of households in rural south-western Nigeria. I also find that while the income elasticity of quantity of calorie intake is close to zero, income elasticity for quality of calorie intake is substantially positive. I conclude that neither gender-neutral household income increases nor redistribution of household income in favor of women would substantially motivate increased amounts of food energy intake within households in the population under study. However, gender neutral increase in household income is likely to substantially increase the household demand for high-quality food calorie sources. [source]

A Cournot,Nash Model of Family Decision Making

THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 474 2001
Zhiqi Chen
This paper models a two-person family. Each family member is utility maximising, yet family members are interdependent because of caring and public goods within the family. The two family members' interdependent utility maximisation problems are first solved using a non-cooperative, or Cournot,Nash, game theoretic framework. The Cournot,Nash equilibrium is then used as a threat point in a bargaining game. The paper provides a rigorous derivation of the properties of household demands, a full analysis of the determinants of intra-household resource allocation, including the effect of varying household bargaining power, and consideration of policy implications. [source]