I n this paper, the effects of the Food Stamp (FS) Program (now referred to as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-SNAP) on individuals’ food choices are evaluated. In other words, I examine how households' food choice or relative food consumption is changed by FS participation. For this purpose six food groups are created using 2016 Consumer Expenditure Diary Surv...

FEWS NET is a USAID-funded activity. The authors' views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the view of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government. Anomaly – is a deviation from the norm or average. Arbitrage – is taking advantage of a price differential. The two most common types of arbitrage related to food security are spatial ...

The Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE) program collects expenditure, demographic, and income data from families households. CE held its annual Survey Methods Symposium Microdata Users’ Workshop July 21 to 24, 2020, address CE-related topics in survey methods research, provide free training the structure uses of microdata, explore possibilities for collaboration. Economists program, staff other U...

With the help of time-varying parameter vector autoregression with stochastic volatility (TVP-SV-VAR) model and Bayesian dynamic conditional correlational autoregressive heteroscedasticity (Bayesian DCC-GARCH) model, this study analyzes interaction mechanism correlation among financial leverage, house price, consumer expenditure (the survey data are collected from China’s National Bureau Statis...

Individual consumers often are assumed to follow certain relatively simple budgeting rules when making expenditure decisions. For example, how much to save may be decided upon almost separately from decisions on how much to spend on food, services, and other day-to-day consumables. Of course, it is well known that such "decentralized" budgeting decisions can fit well within standard consumer th...

This study is from the perspective of China's cultural consumption, to impact urban per capita disposable income on education, culture and entertainment service expenditure, with local financial budget revenue, consumer price index, regional GDP as control variables, so more accurate Then explore how expand consumption in order enhance country's soft power. In this paper, multiple regression mo...

Utilizing the Consumer Expenditure Survey and state-level variation in taxes, this study nds that prices for most models of new cars shift by more than the amount of a sales tax. The evidence of an overshifting of prices o ers support for the recent models of tax incidence in imperfectly competitive markets. The results also suggest that changes in the after-tax interest rate have o setting e e...

ANN C. FOSTER and CRAIG J. KREISLER T he National Health Care Expenditure Accounts (NHEA), the official estimates of total health care spending in the United States, show that in 2008, U.S. health care spending by business, governments, and households was $2.3 trillion, or $7,681 per person. The NHEA also shows that in 2008 health care spending was 16.2 percent of the gross domestic product (GD...

An Additive Double-Logarithmic Consumer Demand System Lester D. Taylor University of Arizona Despite obvious theoretical shortcomings, the double-logarithmic function, because of ease of estimation and generally superior fit, is often the demand function of choice in applied demand analysis. However, the drawback to double-logarithmic demand functions is that they are not theoretically plausibl...

We study how the level and composition of household expenditures changes over the business cycle for households at different positions in the income distribution. Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, we find that transitory, state-specific increases in unemployment causes lower income groups to lower their total expenditure outlays, contrary to the prediction of the textbook account...