Mexican Meat Demand at the Table Cut Level: Estimating a Censored Demand System in a Complex Survey

Jose Antonio Lopez, Jaime E. Malaga, Benaissa Chidmi, Eric Belasco () and James Surles

Journal of Food Distribution Research, 2012, vol. 43, issue 2, 27

Abstract: Demand elasticities at the table cut level are computed from a Mexican survey of household incomes and weekly expenditures, which is a stratified sample. A censored demand system is estimated incorporating stratification variables and it results in unbiased parameter and elasticity estimates, which can be interpreted as estimates of all Mexican meat-consuming households. Their standard errors are rigorously approximated by bootstrapping. Several indicators of heterogeneous meat-cut demands are found. Volumes traded differ among the table cuts of meats; the probability of buying a particular meat cut changes across meat cuts and geographical regions; and cases of substitutability and complementarity are identified within and across meat categories.

Keywords: Livestock Production/Industries; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.145330

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