Accounting for Changes in Tastes

Chalfant, James A.; Alston, Julian M.

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“…Many studies tested structural changes for food consumption at different time periods and investigated determinants of such changes under the life-cycle perspective (Chalfant and Alston 1988;Cook 1993;Cortez 1994;Davis et al 1983). Factors that contribute to structural differences of food demand in different time periods can be divided to economic and noneconomic factors.…”

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Food consumption and demographics in Japan: Implications for an aging population

2007

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This study estimates a cross-sectional model based on the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) to examine the determinants of food consumption patterns in Japan over life-cycle periods. The test of structural changes, the analysis of the effects of demographic characteristics, and the estimation of expenditure and price elasticities are conducted from a random sample of 1,281 households from a Japanese household survey in 1997. Results show that each economic or non-economic factor has a different impact on food consumption over a lifetime. Changes in consumption of some food groups can be explained by price and income effects where others can be explained by demographic characteristics. Financial constraint is not binding and residential location is likely to have little or no impact on predicting consumers' food choices at different periods of their lives. Other key factors that affect consumption pattern include family size, number of children, lifestyle and health concern.[EconLit citations: C310, D120, D910.]

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Food consumption and demographics in Japan: Implications for an aging population

2007

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“…Despite the obvious advantages of this approach com-pared to the parametric approach where a particular functional form must be specified, there are concerns with respect to the power of these nonparametric tests and whether they are capable of detecting suuctural change. An important observation made by Chalfant and Alston (1988) was that:…”

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“…Alternatively, there are other economists who have tested for structural change using nonparametric techniques and shown that changes in consumption can be explained by changes in prices and expenditures, concluding that preferences have remained stable (e.g. Chalfant and Alston 1988). Other formal approaches by economists using parametric techniques have resulted in mixed results, with results varying and being sensitive to choice of functional form, making it difficult for any definitive conclusions to be made about the presence or absencc of structural change.…”

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From Consumer Choice Process to Aggregate Analysis: Marketing Insights for Models of Meat Demand

Piggott

Wright

1992

Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics

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The presence or absence of structural change in meat demand is critical to marketing decision making. I f change is present, marketing bodies need to know what underlies the change so that the most appropriate response can be identified. Marketing theory is considered asa possible source of more explicit models of demand which may lead to a better understanding of consumption patterns and structural change.

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“…In common with other Australian studie.s of meat demand, fish is excluded owing to the unavailability of data. Mutton is excluded owing to the concerns expressed by Chalfant and Alston (1988) regarding the quality of this data.…”

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A Model of the Disaggregated Demand for Meat in Australia

Cashin

1991

Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics

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The focus of this study is the estimation of the Australian demand for meat between 1967 and 1990, employing a demand systems approach which uses the linear approximate, almost ideal demand system (LA/AIDS) model. Two demand systems are estimated by maximum likelihood methods, one for aggregate types of meat and one for disaggrgated meat products. After correcting for serial correlation in the two demand systems, restrictions from utility theory are imposed and tested for thcirappropriatcness. By using a new data set on the Australian retail price and consumption of fresh pork, ham and bacon, the results from the disaggregated model provide the first estimates of the own-price, cross-price and expenditure elasticities for these commodities.

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Accounting for Changes in Tastes

Cited by 157 publications

References 24 publications

Food consumption and demographics in Japan: Implications for an aging population

Food consumption and demographics in Japan: Implications for an aging population

From Consumer Choice Process to Aggregate Analysis: Marketing Insights for Models of Meat Demand

A Model of the Disaggregated Demand for Meat in Australia

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