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Estimating the Effect of Household Age-Sex Composition on Food Expenditures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Chung-Liang Huang  and
Robert Raunikar
Chung-Liang Huang
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, Georgia Experiment Station
Robert Raunikar
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, Georgia Experiment Station
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The effects of variation in household age-sex composition on food expenditures are not, conventionally, accounted for when food expenditures are expressed on a per capita basis. Because households differ in physical makeup as well as in their ability to generate income, the specific requirements certain household members place on the family budget raise the problem of determing their relative economic position. The per capita approach fails to reflect the effect of variations in household composition on food expenditures. Therefore, it is desirable to isolate the normal food expenditure relation to the “household-specific” effects.

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Research Article
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , December 1978 , pp. 151 - 155
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1978

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