Who Pays More for Food? |
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| Authors: | Hayden Stewart Noel Blisard |
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| Institution: | Hayden Stewart and Noel Blisard are economists with the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1800 M Street NW, Room N‐2118, Washington, DC, 20036‐5831, USA. E‐mail: . for correspondence. This paper has benefited from comments by several of our colleagues at the Economic Research Service as well as by two anonymous referees. We are especially grateful to Vince Breneman and Chengxia You for helping us to organize our data. The views and opinions expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
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| Abstract: | Building on research with unit values, we demonstrate how a household's per serving and total vegetable expenditures depend on both the characteristics of the household and on its location. The lower a household's income, for example, the lower is vegetable spending, all else constant. However, households living in communities with high real estate prices, or with a high incidence of poverty, among other things, tend to pay more. Simulations further illustrate the effect that a community's characteristics can have on a household's vegetable spending, if the household lives in each of 10 cities in the United States. |
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| Keywords: | consumer demand demand analysis food food expenditures nutrition and health unit values vegetable consumption |
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