Nutrient Elasticities in a Complete Food Demand System

作者：Kuo S. Huang · 发表于：American Journal of Agricultural Economics · 年份：1996 · DOI：10.2307/1243775 · 被引用次数：131 · 研究领域：Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets、Economic and Environmental Valuation、Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Abstract This study explores the linkage of the determinants of food choice with consumer nutrient availability by developing a procedure to measure changes in nutrient availability as the demand for food items change. It uses demand elasticities from traditional demand analysis to estimate elasticities of changes in the nutritional content of consumer diets. The procedure is applied to estimate nutrient elasticities for fifteen nutrients in response to changes in thirty‐five food prices and per capita income.