Quinoa Quandary: Cultural Tastes and Nutrition in Peru
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Using a model of household food demand that incorporates regional preferences (tastes) for culturally appropriate food, I investigate whether tastes for quinoa in the Puno region of Peru reduce household nutrition intakes when quinoa prices dramatically increase between 2004 and 2012. Adapting a model from Atkin (2013b) and utilizing data from a national Peruvian household survey (ENAHO), I am able to deconstruct regional changes in household nutrition over time into several general equilibrium e↵ects; in particular, I isolate the e↵ect of regional tastes for quinoa on nutrition outcomes. This e↵ect is identified by an exogenous spike in quinoa prices driven by international demand for quinoa. While I find evidence that regional tastes for quinoa do exist in the Puno region, these tastes do not have a statistically significant impact on nutrition outcomes. My results lend support to the conjecture that tastes for culturally appropriate food do not meaningfully a↵ect household nutrition if the food in question is a su ciently small component of a household’s overall diet. (JEL codes: D12, I12, O15, R22)
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