Household food security: Perceptions, behavior and nutritional quality of food purchases

Andrés Silva, Juan Carlos Caro and David Magaña-Lemus

Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, vol. 55, issue C, 139-148

Abstract: Food security is an encompassing concept that includes several dimensions: sufficiency, acceptability, safety, stability and nutritional quality. Lately, diverse studies discuss how much objective and subjective indicators are able to characterize some of the above-mentioned dimensions. This has opened the door to some apparent contradictions between different food security measurements that reflect perception (through specific surveys) and behavior (expenditure data).

Keywords: Household decision making; Consumer attitudes & behavior; Consumer economics: empirical analysis; Food policy; General household analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 D12 Q18 R20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2016.05.003

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