Economies of scale and food consumption: A reappraisal of the Deaton-Paxson paradox

François Gardes () and Christophe Starzec ()
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François Gardes: TEAM - Théories et Applications en Microéconomie et Macroéconomie - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Christophe Starzec: TEAM - Théories et Applications en Microéconomie et Macroéconomie - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, INSEE - Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)

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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. Moreover, different types of possible estimation biases are discussed and corrected using panel instead of cross section data.

Keywords: food consumption; economies of scale; equivalence scales; panel and cross-section estimates; consommation alimentaire; économie d'échelle; échelle d'équivalence; estimations en panel et en coupe transversale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-01
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Published in 2000

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