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Nutrient Availability, Food Costs, and Food Stamps
Author(s) -
Basiotis Peter,
Brown Mark,
Johnson S. R.,
Morgan Karen J.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1240456
Subject(s) - food stamp program , food stamps , consumption (sociology) , nutrient , component (thermodynamics) , socioeconomic status , food consumption , agricultural economics , food supply , low income , business , economics , environmental health , socioeconomics , biology , medicine , ecology , social science , population , physics , sociology , welfare , market economy , thermodynamics
Nutrient consumption patterns of low income households were analyzed using data from the special low income component of the 1977–78 Nationwide Food Consumption Survey. A system of simultaneous equations for estimating food cost and diet component availability levels in home food supply was applied. The derived reduced form showed that Food Stamp Program participation had a positive impact on diet component availability levels. Impacts of other socioeconomic variables examined for diet component availability were generally larger than those for program participation and income. Diet component availability levels were relatively constant across households with different income and Food Stamp Program bonus levels.