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Working Wives and Food away from Home: The Box‐Cox Double Hurdle Model
Author(s) -
Yen Steven T.
Publication year - 1993
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 - 10.2307/1243976
Subject(s) - food away from home , consumer expenditure survey , consumption (sociology) , wife , food consumption , economics , demographic economics , econometrics , agricultural economics , public economics , sociology , political science , social science , aggregate expenditure , law
Abstract Household expenditures on food away from home are analyzed with the use of the BLS' 1989 Consumer Expenditure Survey. Parameterization and distributional assumptions of Cragg's double‐hurdle model are generalized for this purpose, and the resulting model outperforms the more traditional ones. Results suggest households with working wives and those with higher income are more likely to consume food away from home and also to consume more than others. Wife's age and household size increase the conditional level of consumption. Education has conflicting effects on probability and conditional level of consumption.