Accounting for Urban-Rural Real Food Expenditure Differentials in Cameroon: A Quantile Regression-Based Decomposition

Ebenezer Lemven Wirba () and Francis Menjo Baye ()
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Ebenezer Lemven Wirba: University of Bamenda-Cameroon
Francis Menjo Baye: University of Yaoundé II-Cameroon

EuroEconomica, 2016, issue 2(35), 61-77

Abstract: This paper aims at accounting for the urban-rural household real food expenditure differentials in Cameroon. In particular, the paper: assesses the determinants of household real food consumption expenditure across percentiles; evaluates the direction of change of the elasticity of expenditure and the urban-rural household food expenditure gap between 2001 and 2007across percentiles; and investigates the role of access to endowments and returns to endowments in accounting for the urban-rural household real food expenditure gaps across percentiles. The study uses the 2001 and 2007 Cameroon household consumption surveys, quantile regression analysis and a Quantile-Oaxaca-Blinder based framework to decompose the urban-rural food expenditure gaps across percentiles. Results indicate that the elasticity of expenditure and urban-rural food expenditure gaps declined significantly between 2001 and 2007across the quantiles under consideration. Results also show that real total expenditure predominantly explains real food expenditure and the urban-rural food expenditure gaps and returns to endowments overwhelmingly account for the urban-rural food expenditure gaps for both periods and across the quantiles under review. Some policy implications are derived from the analysis.

Keywords: Household food expenditure; Urban-Rural food expenditure differentials; Quantile-Oaxaca-Blinder based decomposition and Cameroon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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