What drives our Beer Consumption?---In Search of Nutrition Habits and Demographic Patterns

M. Angerer, M. Dünser, L. Kaiser, G. Peter, Sebastian Stöckl and A. Veress

Applied Economics, 2019, vol. 51, issue 41, 4539-4550

Abstract: Conventional wisdom in Germany claims pork hocks with sauerkraut and beer. But is it really that simple? In an unbalanced cross-country panel covering 169 nations and time-series records of up to 52 years, we analyse drivers behind beer consumption. Based on data gathered from Worldbank and Faostat, we run multivariate panel regressions and test for the explanatory power of three categories of food and six macroeconomic and demographic variables. Indeed, we confirm most clichés of a typical beer drinker being a middle-aged urbanite with a strong desire for pork and potatoes, however, disliking cheese and wine.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2019.1593938

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