A consumer life­cycle demand system is constructed to investigate the presence of ra­ tional habits and effects of food safety information on U.S. meat consumption. Based on previous studies, information on meat recalls and media coverage of food safety events is used to measure consumer perception of meat quality. At quarterly frequen­ cies, U.S. meat demand is found to be intertemporally nons...

There are significant disparities in the wealth of nations and how incomes spent. For example, consumers poorest countries spend more than half income on food, while richest countries, this is one-tenth or less. We use recently published data from International Comparison Program for 176 to estimate cross-country demands. Considerable progress can be made accounting much consumption patterns wi...