The demand for food in the United States and The Netherlands: a systems approach with the CBS model

Driel, Hans Van; Nadall, Venuta; Zeelenberg, Kees

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-1255(199709/10)12:5<509::aid-jae451>3.3.co;2-g

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“…It is a consistent empirical result that the demand for food is relatively unresponsive to price. For a recent estimate confirming this fact in the United States, see van Driel, et al (1997). Given this fact, if the price of high quality food rises in the winter, then expenditures should also increase.…”

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Heat or Eat? Cold-Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families

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We examine the effects of cold weather periods on family budgets and on nutritional outcomes in poor American families. Expenditures on food and home fuels are tracked by linking the Consumer Expenditure Survey to temperature data. Using the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we track calorie consumption, dietary quality, vitamin deficiencies, and anemia in summer and winter months. We find that both rich and poor families increase fuel expenditures in response to unusually cold weather (a 10° F drop below normal). At same time, poor families reduce food expenditures by roughly the same amount as the increase in fuel expenditures, while rich families increase food expenditures. Poor adults and children reduce caloric intake by roughly 200 calories during winter months, unlike richer adults and children. In sensitivity analyses, we find that decreases in food expenditure are most pronounced outside the South. We conclude that poor parents and their children outside the South spend and eat less food during cold weather temperature shocks. We surmise that existing social programs fail to buffer against these shocks.

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Heat or Eat? Cold-Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families

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“…The existing empirical evidence finds that the demand for agricultural goods is indeed price inelastic. Studies typically estimate the price elasticity of food demand to be between −0.80 and −0.20 (e.g., Tobin, 1950;Tolley et al, 1969;Van Driel et al, 1997). We therefore take the case in which an increase in agricultural productivity A A decreases the value of land to be the empirically relevant scenario.…”

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“…Studies typically estimate the price elasticity of food demand to be between −0.80 and −0.20 (e.g.,Tobin, 1950;Tolley et al, 1969;Van Driel et al, 1997).…”

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The Long-Run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900

2017

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“…Studies typically estimate the price elasticity of food demand to be between −0.80 and −0.20 (e.g., Tobin, 1950;Tolley et al, 1969;Van Driel et al, 1997). We therefore take the case in which an increase in agricultural productivity A A decreases the value of land to be the empirically relevant scenario.…”

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The Long-run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900

İyigün¹,

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Qian³

2017

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The demand for food in the United States and The Netherlands: a systems approach with the CBS model

Cited by 7 publications

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Heat or Eat? Cold-Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families

Heat or Eat? Cold-Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families

The Long-Run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900

The Long-run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900

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