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The Demand for Beef Specialty Products
Author(s) -
Smith Vincent H.,
Goodwin Barry K.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
applied economic perspectives and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.4
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2040-5804
pISSN - 2040-5790
DOI - 10.2307/1349508
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , specialty , logistic regression , ordered logit , logit , ethnic group , economics , business , demographic economics , agricultural economics , econometrics , statistics , psychology , social science , mathematics , psychiatry , sociology , anthropology
This article examines the demand for beef specialty products: liver, kidney, heart, tongue, tripe, sweetbreads, and brains. Logit models are used to evaluate the influences of several economic and demographic variables on consumption. The results suggest that consumption of these products is inversely related to income and positively related to household size. Consumption is more likely for older consumers, though the probability of consumption is lower for elderly consumers than for middle‐aged consumers. A strong ethnic effect is also revealed.