Article
Household Production and the Demand for Food and Other Inputs: U.S. Evidence
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
12-1-2011
Abstract
The paper develops a new productive household model and a consistent household fullincome/ expenditure demand system for inputs and leisure of U.S. households. The demand system is fitted to U.S. annual aggregate data over the last half of the 20th century and findings include that the price and income elasticity of demand for food-at-home are roughly two times larger than for food-away-from-home and that food-at-home and away-from-home are substitutes. The price and income elasticity of demand for men’s unpaid housework are twice as large as for women’s unpaid housework and women’s and men’s unpaid housework are shown to be complements.
Copyright Owner
Western Agricultural Economics Association
Copyright Date
2011
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Wallace E. Huffman. "Household Production and the Demand for Food and Other Inputs: U.S. Evidence" Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics Vol. 36 Iss. 3 (2011) p. 465 - 487 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/wallace-huffman/107/
This article is from Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 36 (2011): 465. Posted with permission.