Engel Yasası’nın Türkiye Sınaması ve Gıda Talebinin Gelir Esnekliği: Gıda Harcamalarının Bütçe Payının Hane Profili ve Toplam Harcama ile İlişkisi (2003-2013)

Abstract

This study set out to test the Engel-Law for the food expenditures in Turkey for 2003-2013 period and to estimate the income elasticity of food demand controlling the demographic characteristics of the households. Household Budget Survey data is used for the quantile regression estimation of the Working-Leser model. The results show that the income elasticity of food demand is between 0.62-0.79 for the period. The elasticity is smaller for the conditional quantiles of higher budget share of food. The findings include the relationships of the budget share of food with the age, education, and social security coverage of the household heads as well as with the household's urban/rural location. The probable effects of the 2008 economic crisis also appears in the findings.

Investigating Household Food Expenditures and the Engel’s curve in Ghana: The Empirics

“…It analyses the household Engel food coefficient and curve, household marginal food budget share and their expenditure elasticity. It also adds to the few existing literatures (Abdulai & Aubert, 2004;Abdulai & Kuhlgatz, 2011;Abdulai, 2003;Akparibo et al 2021;Essilfie et al, 2020;Annim & Frempong, 2018;Antwi & Lyford, 2022;Aykac 2018;Devereux & Maxwell, 2001;Ecker & Fang, 2015;Ecker, 2018;Omari et al, 2018;Fashogbon & Oni, 2013;Frempong & Annim, 2017;Hasan, 2016;Hasegawa et al, 2008;Jaiyeola et al, 2020;Ansah et al, 2020;KC et al, 2017;Maxwell, 1999Maxwell, 2001Maxwell, 2001;Melo et al, 2015;Moss et al, 2016;Nsabimana et al 2020;Osei-Kwasi et al, 2021;Otsuka, 2015;Scrimshaw, 2008;Setsoafia et al, 2022), studies on developing countries' household food budget and expenditure analysis. This paper is carven in this form.…”

“…Household budget allocation to food is well established in the developed economies' literature, since (Engel, 1857) seminal paper and recent literature inter alia includes (Abdulai, 2003;Almas, 2012;Aromolaran, 2004;Aykac, 2018;Blundell et al 2007;Deaton, 1992;Engel & Kneip, 1996;Jaiyeola, et al 2020;Lewbel, 2008;Ravallion & Chen, 2015). Ghana is a developing country with about thirty-one million population and located in the West Africa of the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region with four 2022 International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research https://doi.org/10.26803/MyRes.2022.07 identified agricultural ecological areas (Nin-Pratt & McBride, 2014).…”

Estimating household food budget shares and Engel’s food coefficient in a lean food supply month in Ghana: a micro data analysis

“…This has in recent times led to a growing activity in exploring techniques aimed at exploring how household could have access to food while at the same time reducing household food budget share in total household expenditure. Hence, with only few years left to achieve the AU Agenda (2063) goals policy to combat hunger in all its forms by ensuring affordable household food budget on the African continent by 2025, it is necessary to examine the allocation of Ghanaian household budgets to food needs, numerous years after the Engel seminal paper (Aykac, 2018) which empirically studied the association between German households" income and expenditure for food, at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic still lingers on.…”