The effects of socioeconomic and demographic factors on the consumption of food energy, protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, and iron are examined. Socioeconomic and demographic factors analyzed are urbanization, region, race, ethnicity, sex, employment status, food stamp participation, household size, weight, height, age, and income. Several of these...

Countries with significantly different development levels experience similar regulatory transformations in the telecommunications industry. While these changes may be particularly successful in lowering costs, they may also lead to lower consumer welfare in markets in which consumers are highly sensitive to price changes. This paper assessed whether price elasticities for telecommunications dem...

Fresh fruits and vegetables are perceived to be nutritious and healthy, but more costly than some less nutritious foods. Supermarket scanner data are used to analyze the purchase behavior of higherand lower-income consumers for produce. Eight sub-categories of fruit are identified; six of vegetables. A SUR model is specified and used to estimate a series of own-price and cross-price elasticitie...

abstract in agriculture, there is a lag between planting decision and supplying the produced commodity to the market. this makes the marketed commodities as predetermined variables and prices as market clearing factor. under such a condition, the inverse demand function in which price is a function of quantity is an appropriate tool for forecasting price responses to the injected quantities to ...

This paper argues that the conventional definition of the elasticity of complementarity is not well suited to deal with the case of increasing returns. It proposes a slightly different formula, that uses a distance function formulation instead of a production function. The proposed definition coincides with the Hicksian measure in case the production function displays constant returns. It is mo...

☆ Particular thanks to Patrick Bajari and Robert Town. Meghan Busse, Meg Henkel, Thomas Holmes, Ginger Jin Connan Snider, Kevin Wiseman, and Thomas Youle for he ⁎ Tel.: +1 336 758 4495. E-mail address: [email protected]. 1 See for example, Reiss and White (2002), Herriges a (1992) in electricity, Szabo (2010) and Diakite et al. (20 and Grubb and Osborne (2012), Reiss and White (2006 Huang (2008) ...