Year: 1990
Type: report
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: It is generally agreed that as income (or expenditure) rises, households switch to higher valued foods not necessarily with higher nutrient content.Some recent work has suggested that, even among the very poor, as income rises households purchase only additional taste and non-calorie nutrients: the calorieincome curve is very flat.In this paper the effect of expenditure on calorie and protein demand is estimated with data from a large scale Brazilian expenditure survey.Nonparametric estimates, which impose very little structure on the relationship between nutrient intake and expenditure, demonstrate that the calorie-expenditure curve is positively sloped for households in the bottom three quartiles of the per capita expenditure (PCE) distribution; it is kinked when per capita calorie intake is between 2, 500 and 3, 000 calories per day and is flat at higher expenditure levels.
Source: Econstor (Econstor)
Authors: John Strauss, D. Thonas
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
SDGs: Zero hunger, No poverty
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Institutes of Health
OpenAlex ID: W1516666450