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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Modelling physical quantities of food and nutrients consumed from aggregate data – with an application to Finland
Autores: | Irz,   Xavier T.
Data: | 2009-05-25
Ano: | 2009
Palavras-chave: | Demand analysis; Aggregation theory; Physical consumption; Nutrition; Nutrient elasticity; Finland; Fat tax; Nutritional policy.; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; I10; Q18; Q11.
Resumo: | Anticipating the impact of changes in economic incentives on dietary quality and nutritional health requires knowledge of how physical quantities of food consumed respond to price and income variations. A problem arises, however, because physical quantities are: 1- not consistent aggregates in demand models; and 2- not measured at final/retail level in national statistics. The paper develops a solution by establishing explicitly the theoretical link between composite demand and physical quantities, from which a novel empirical approach to the estimation of nutrient elasticities is derived. It is applied to Finnish aggregate data from the National Accounts and Food Balance Sheets over the 1975-2006 period, and the results are used to assess the potential effectiveness of several incentive-based nutritional policy instruments.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/50324

Relação:

International Association of Agricultural Economists&gt;2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China

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Formato: | 21