Do prices and attributes explain international differences in food purchases?
By Rachel Griffith, Aviv Nevo, Pierre Dubois. 2013
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Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate counterfactual choices if households faced prices and nutritional characteristics from other countries. We find that differences in prices and characteristics are important and can explain some difference (e.g., US-France difference in caloric intake), but generally cannot explain many of the compositional patterns by themselves. Instead, it seems an interaction between the economic environment and differences in preferences is needed to explain cross country differences.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- Nutrition Transition and the Structure of Global Food Demand (2017, background): “A cross-country estimation of food demand in calories at the final good level is possible now for only a few developed countries for which detailed household-level data are available along with the composition of products (Dubois et al., 2014).”