Regional Differences in Food Consumption in Urban Mozambique: A Censored Demand System Approach
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Regional Differences in Food Consumption in Urban Mozambique : A Censored Demand System Approach. / Barslund, Mikkel Christoffer.
Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2007.Research output: Working paper › Research
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T1 - Regional Differences in Food Consumption in Urban Mozambique
T2 - A Censored Demand System Approach
AU - Barslund, Mikkel Christoffer
N1 - JEL Classification: D12, O12, O18
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - A nationwide household survey for Mozambique is used to estimate a large censored food demand system with 12 food groups for the sample of urban households. Using the translog indirect utility approach, the censored nature of the data is addressed by estimating a system of Tobit equations with a recently suggested quasi maximum likelihood estimator. Augmenting the system with demographic and geographical variables in a theoretically consistent way, I find that differences in elasticities between regions are significant. The results show that regional variation has to be taken into account when evaluating policies or employing CGE models. Further, the approach employed here can be applied to a number of developing countries with varying geographic conditions
AB - A nationwide household survey for Mozambique is used to estimate a large censored food demand system with 12 food groups for the sample of urban households. Using the translog indirect utility approach, the censored nature of the data is addressed by estimating a system of Tobit equations with a recently suggested quasi maximum likelihood estimator. Augmenting the system with demographic and geographical variables in a theoretically consistent way, I find that differences in elasticities between regions are significant. The results show that regional variation has to be taken into account when evaluating policies or employing CGE models. Further, the approach employed here can be applied to a number of developing countries with varying geographic conditions
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - censored demand system
KW - elasticities
KW - Mozambique
KW - food demand
KW - regional differences
M3 - Working paper
BT - Regional Differences in Food Consumption in Urban Mozambique
PB - Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
ER -
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