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Wife's Employment, Food Expenditures, and Apparent Nutrient Intake: Evidence from Canada
Author(s) -
Horton Susan,
Campbell Cathy
Publication year - 1991
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 - 10.2307/1242831
Subject(s) - wife , per capita , nutrient , food stamp program , economics , consumer expenditure survey , food away from home , calorie , agricultural economics , engel curve , food stamps , food consumption , aggregate expenditure , environmental health , biology , public economics , political science , medicine , population , ecology , welfare , law , market economy , endocrinology
Abstract Women's employment has important effects on the share of food in total expenditure, the share of food‐away‐from‐home in the food budget, cost per calorie, and per capita availability of twelve nutrients. Empirical results are presented using Canadian household food expenditure survey data. As expected, wife's employment increases the share of food‐away‐from‐home in the food budget. Wife's full‐time employment has a negative effect on apparent nutrient intake, not offset by the higher per capita income of such households. There are policy implications for nutrition education and nutrient content of food‐away‐from‐home.