American Economic Journal:
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The Demand for Food of Poor Urban Mexican Households: Understanding Policy Impacts Using Structural Models
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
vol. 5,
no. 1, February 2013
(pp. 146–78)
Abstract
We use Oportunidades, a conditional cash transfer to women, to show that standard demand models do not represent the sample's behavior: Oportunidades increases eligible households' food budget shares, despite food being a necessity; demand for food and high-protein food changes over time only in treatment areas; the treatment effects on food and high-protein food consumption are larger than the prediction from the Engel curves at baseline; and the curves do not change in eligible households with high baseline bargaining power for the transfer recipient. Thus, handing transfers to women is a likely determinant of the observed nutritional changes. (JEL D12, H23, J16, O12)Citation
Angelucci, Manuela, and Orazio Attanasio. 2013. "The Demand for Food of Poor Urban Mexican Households: Understanding Policy Impacts Using Structural Models." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5 (1): 146–78. DOI: 10.1257/pol.5.1.146Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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