Returns to scale in food preparation and the Deaton–Paxson puzzle

We consider returns to scale in food preparation as a potential resolution of a puzzle raised by Deaton and Paxson (Journal of Political Economy, 106(5), 897–930, 1998). We clarify the conditions under which returns to scale in food preparation can resolve the puzzle. The key requirement is that foo...

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Autores principales: Crossley, Thomas F., Lu, Yuqian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer US 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30930702
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11150-017-9399-4
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spelling pubmed-64078492019-03-27 Returns to scale in food preparation and the Deaton–Paxson puzzle Crossley, Thomas F. Lu, Yuqian Rev Econ Househ Article We consider returns to scale in food preparation as a potential resolution of a puzzle raised by Deaton and Paxson (Journal of Political Economy, 106(5), 897–930, 1998). We clarify the conditions under which returns to scale in food preparation can resolve the puzzle. The key requirement is that foods are heterogeneous in time costs. We then show that detailed food expenditure and time use data are consistent with larger households shifting to more time intensive foods. Springer US 2017-12-02 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6407849/ /pubmed/30930702 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11150-017-9399-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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