Distribution of Budget Shares for Food: An Application of Quantile Regression to Food Security 1

Charles Moss, James F. Oehmke, Alexandre Lyambabaje and Andrew Schmitz
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James F. Oehmke: U.S. Agency for International Development, RRB 2.10-269, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20523, USA
Alexandre Lyambabaje: School of Public Health, National University of Rwanda, PO Box 5229, Kigali, Rwanda
Andrew Schmitz: Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida, 1130 McCarty Hall, PO Box 110240, Gainesville, FL 32611-0240, USA

Econometrics, 2016, vol. 4, issue 2, 1-12

Abstract: This study examines, using quantile regression, the linkage between food security and efforts to enhance smallholder coffee producer incomes in Rwanda. Even though in Rwanda smallholder coffee producer incomes have increased, inhabitants these areas still experience stunting and wasting. This study examines whether the distribution of the income elasticity for food is the same for coffee and noncoffee growing provinces. We find that that the share of expenditures on food is statistically different in coffee growing and noncoffee growing provinces. Thus, the increase in expenditure on food is smaller for coffee growing provinces than noncoffee growing provinces.

Keywords: income elasticity; subsistence; marketing channels (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B23 C C00 C01 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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