Predicting within country household food expenditure variation using international cross-section estimates

Monika Verma, Thomas Hertel and Paul Preckel ()

Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 113, issue 3, 218-220

Abstract: International cross-section demand systems have not been tested on their ability to accurately predict within country consumption expenditures. This paper reports on such a validation exercise for the case of food budget share predictions across expenditure percentiles within Bangladesh.

Keywords: International cross-section demand system; Across income spectrum prediction; Household data; AIDADS; Food demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B40 D12 Q11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.07.004

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