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Modelling the Consumption of Home-Produced Vegetables with an Application to French Households

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  • Caillavet, France
  • Nichele, Veronique
  • Robin, Jean-Marc

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The purpose of this paper is to study the trade-off between purchases and home production of food. We develop a simple household production model which predicts a zero elasticity of home production with respect to total expenditure. Focusing on vegetables, we use data from the 1991 French National Food Survey. Due to data limitations, a reduced form of the structural household production model is estimated. We use Working-Leser functional forms for the share of vegetables in total food consumption and the share of home production in vegetable consumption, conditional on the decision to maintain a kitchen garden. As predicted by the theoretical model, we estimate a zero elasticity of home production with respect to total vegetable outlay. Copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Caillavet, France & Nichele, Veronique & Robin, Jean-Marc, 1998. "Modelling the Consumption of Home-Produced Vegetables with an Application to French Households," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 25(2), pages 170-187.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:erevae:v:25:y:1998:i:2:p:170-87
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