TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dubois,Pierre
AU  - Griffith,Rachel
AU  - Nevo,Aviv
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Do Prices and Attributes Explain International Differences in Food Purchases?
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - February 2013; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate counterfactual choices if households faced prices and nutritional characteristics from other countries. We find that differences in prices and characteristics are important and can explain some difference (e.g., US-France difference in caloric intake), but generally cannot explain many of the compositional patterns by themselves. Instead, it seems an interaction between the economic environment and differences in preferences is needed to explain cross country differences
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w18750
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w18750
ER  -