Economies of Scale and Food Consumption: a Reappraisal of the Deaton-Paxson Paradox

François Gardes and Christophe Starzec

Papiers d'Economie Mathématique et Applications from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1)

Abstract: The paradoxical negative relation between food consumption and the family size analyzed by Deaton and Paxson (1998) is discussed and evaluated on a household consumption panel. This negative relation is confirmed using panel data but weakens considerably when an equivalence scale instead of family size is used and when the change of the family structure over time is taken into account.

Keywords: FOOD CONSUMPTION; FAMILY; HOUSEHOLD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C23 C52 D12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2000
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