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Nutrient Elasticities in a Complete Food Demand System
Author(s) -
Huang Kuo S.
Publication year - 1996
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 - 10.2307/1243775
Subject(s) - nutrient , economics , per capita , agricultural economics , consumer demand , linkage (software) , econometrics , microeconomics , biology , ecology , environmental health , medicine , population , biochemistry , gene
This study explores the linkage of the determinants of food choice with consumer nutrient availability by developing a procedure to measure changes in nutrient availability as the demand for food items change. It uses demand elasticities from traditional demand analysis to estimate elasticities of changes in the nutritional content of consumer diets. The procedure is applied to estimate nutrient elasticities for fifteen nutrients in response to changes in thirty‐five food prices and per capita income.