Estimating Equivalent Scales for Food Expenditures

Chung-Liang Huang and Robert Raunikar

No 283540, 1978 Annual Meeting, August 6-9, Blacksburg, Virginia from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: The equivalent scales were estimated to show the effects of age, sex and household size upon food expenditures. The results indicate that the cost of feeding a child is about 70 percent that of feeding an adult and there are economies of household size in family food expenditures.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14
Date: 1978-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.283540

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