Food demand elasticities by income group by urban and rural populations for Pakistan
This paper presents food demand elasticity estimates for the Pakistan by urban and rural populations by income quartile for thirteen food groups. Income and price elasticities are estimated using a new food demand estimation technique based on demand for characteristics. This new technique requires...
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| author | Bouis, Howarth E. |
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| description | This paper presents food demand elasticity estimates for the Pakistan by urban and rural populations by income quartile for thirteen food groups. Income and price elasticities are estimated using a new food demand estimation technique based on demand for characteristics. This new technique requires far less data than the usual econometric approaches and so may be implemented relatively quickly and costeffectively. However, the resulting demand elasticity estimates depend directly on strong a priori assumptions made concerning food demand behaviour, but assumptions which do not depend on assumptions of weak or strong separability. Rather quite the opposite assumption is made - that the marginal rate of substitution'> between two foods depends directly on the levels of consumption of all other foods. The paper is organised as follows. The first section provides a brief overview of the methodology used for undertaking the demand estimations. The second section discusses the-data used for these estimations and food consumption patterns. The third section presents the demand elasticity estimates. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1708722025-02-19T14:01:58Z Food demand elasticities by income group by urban and rural populations for Pakistan Bouis, Howarth E. data econometrics elasticity food consumption This paper presents food demand elasticity estimates for the Pakistan by urban and rural populations by income quartile for thirteen food groups. Income and price elasticities are estimated using a new food demand estimation technique based on demand for characteristics. This new technique requires far less data than the usual econometric approaches and so may be implemented relatively quickly and costeffectively. However, the resulting demand elasticity estimates depend directly on strong a priori assumptions made concerning food demand behaviour, but assumptions which do not depend on assumptions of weak or strong separability. Rather quite the opposite assumption is made - that the marginal rate of substitution'> between two foods depends directly on the levels of consumption of all other foods. The paper is organised as follows. The first section provides a brief overview of the methodology used for undertaking the demand estimations. The second section discusses the-data used for these estimations and food consumption patterns. The third section presents the demand elasticity estimates. 1992 2025-01-29T12:57:25Z 2025-01-29T12:57:25Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/170872 en Limited Access Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Bouis, Howarth E. 1992. Food demand elasticities by income group by urban and rural populations for Pakistan. The Pakistan Development Review 31:4 Part II (Winter 1992): 997-1017. https://doi.org/10.30541/v31i4IIpp.997-1017 |
| spellingShingle | data econometrics elasticity food consumption Bouis, Howarth E. Food demand elasticities by income group by urban and rural populations for Pakistan |
| title | Food demand elasticities by income group by urban and rural populations for Pakistan |
| title_full | Food demand elasticities by income group by urban and rural populations for Pakistan |
| title_fullStr | Food demand elasticities by income group by urban and rural populations for Pakistan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Food demand elasticities by income group by urban and rural populations for Pakistan |
| title_short | Food demand elasticities by income group by urban and rural populations for Pakistan |
| title_sort | food demand elasticities by income group by urban and rural populations for pakistan |
| topic | data econometrics elasticity food consumption |
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