The structure of US food demand.

An exactly aggregable system of Gorman Engel curves for US food consumption is developed and implemented. Box-Cox transformations on prices and income nest functional form. The model nests rank up to rank three. The model is estimated by nonlinear three-stage least squares with annual time series da...

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Published in:	Journal of Econometrics Vol. 147; no. 2; pp. 336 - 350
Main Author:	LaFrance, Jeffrey T.
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier Science December 2008
Subjects:	Food consumption Food supply Mathematical models United States
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost