Estimating Food Waste at the Individual Household Level ∗
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چکیده
We estimate food waste at the individual household level indirectly using a stochastic production frontier approach. The estimated average percentage of waste is 32.4%. However, by taking proxied physical activities into consideration and utilizing limited information maximum likelihood estimation, our estimate for average household food waste is reduced to 27.6%. We are also able to explore the relationship between food waste and important demographic variables, and we nd that household food insecurity, SNAP participation, and larger household sizes are associated with less food waste, whereas healthy diet practices lead to more waste.
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