Food for thought: A meta-analysis of animal food demand elasticities across world regions

IF 6.8 1区经济学 Q1 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Food Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI:10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102581

Clara G. Bouyssou, Jørgen Dejgård Jensen, Wusheng Yu

{"title":"Food for thought: A meta-analysis of animal food demand elasticities across world regions","authors":"Clara G. Bouyssou, Jørgen Dejgård Jensen, Wusheng Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102581","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Animal food products are featured prominently in current debates on dietary transitions. Food demand projections and policy evaluations often draw on expenditure and price elasticity estimates; thus, it is crucial that these elasticities are robust at an adequate product disaggregation, well-founded, and comparable both across products and countries. To the extent of our knowledge, there is no analysis providing meta-elasticities for all world regions, all food groups, and disaggregated animal foods. In this study, we cover this gap and collect a database with more than 50,000 demand elasticities from 444 studies and 87 countries. As 50% of our sample involves animal food products, we are able to provide food demand meta-elasticities for 14 food groups, of which ten are animal food. We present a set of estimated expenditure, own-price, and cross-price; unconditional and conditional; and uncompensated and compensated elasticities; and discuss their policy implications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":321,"journal":{"name":"Food Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919223001793/pdfft?md5=8043699d236e8f07706b0875a2fca98a&pid=1-s2.0-S0306919223001793-main.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Food Policy","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919223001793","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Animal food products are featured prominently in current debates on dietary transitions. Food demand projections and policy evaluations often draw on expenditure and price elasticity estimates; thus, it is crucial that these elasticities are robust at an adequate product disaggregation, well-founded, and comparable both across products and countries. To the extent of our knowledge, there is no analysis providing meta-elasticities for all world regions, all food groups, and disaggregated animal foods. In this study, we cover this gap and collect a database with more than 50,000 demand elasticities from 444 studies and 87 countries. As 50% of our sample involves animal food products, we are able to provide food demand meta-elasticities for 14 food groups, of which ten are animal food. We present a set of estimated expenditure, own-price, and cross-price; unconditional and conditional; and uncompensated and compensated elasticities; and discuss their policy implications.

查看原文本刊更多论文

引人深思：对世界各地区动物食品需求弹性的元分析

动物食品在当前关于膳食结构转型的讨论中占据突出位置。食品需求预测和政策评估通常利用支出和价格弹性估计值；因此，至关重要的是，这些弹性在适当的产品分类中是稳健的、有充分依据的，并且在不同产品和国家之间具有可比性。据我们所知，目前还没有任何分析提供世界所有地区、所有食品类别和分类动物食品的元弹性。在本研究中，我们填补了这一空白，收集了来自 444 项研究和 87 个国家的 50,000 多个需求弹性数据库。由于我们的样本中有 50%涉及动物食品，因此我们能够提供 14 个食品类别的食品需求元弹性，其中 10 个是动物食品。我们提出了一系列估算的支出弹性、自有价格弹性和交叉价格弹性、无条件弹性和有条件弹性、无补偿弹性和有补偿弹性，并讨论了它们对政策的影响。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Food Policy 管理科学-农业经济与政策

CiteScore

11.40

自引率

4.60%

发文量

128

审稿时长

62 days

期刊介绍： Food Policy is a multidisciplinary journal publishing original research and novel evidence on issues in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policies for the food sector in developing, transition, and advanced economies. Our main focus is on the economic and social aspect of food policy, and we prioritize empirical studies informing international food policy debates. Provided that articles make a clear and explicit contribution to food policy debates of international interest, we consider papers from any of the social sciences. Papers from other disciplines (e.g., law) will be considered only if they provide a key policy contribution, and are written in a style which is accessible to a social science readership.