Regional Differences in Food Consumption in Urban Mozambique: A Censored Demand System Approach

TY - UNPB

T1 - Regional Differences in Food Consumption in Urban Mozambique

T2 - A Censored Demand System Approach

AU - Barslund, Mikkel Christoffer

N1 - JEL Classification: D12, O12, O18

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - A nationwide household survey for Mozambique is used to estimate a large censored food demand system with 12 food groups for the sample of urban households. Using the translog indirect utility approach, the censored nature of the data is addressed by estimating a system of Tobit equations with a recently suggested quasi maximum likelihood estimator. Augmenting the system with demographic and geographical variables in a theoretically consistent way, I find that differences in elasticities between regions are significant. The results show that regional variation has to be taken into account when evaluating policies or employing CGE models. Further, the approach employed here can be applied to a number of developing countries with varying geographic conditions

AB - A nationwide household survey for Mozambique is used to estimate a large censored food demand system with 12 food groups for the sample of urban households. Using the translog indirect utility approach, the censored nature of the data is addressed by estimating a system of Tobit equations with a recently suggested quasi maximum likelihood estimator. Augmenting the system with demographic and geographical variables in a theoretically consistent way, I find that differences in elasticities between regions are significant. The results show that regional variation has to be taken into account when evaluating policies or employing CGE models. Further, the approach employed here can be applied to a number of developing countries with varying geographic conditions

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - censored demand system

KW - elasticities

KW - Mozambique

KW - food demand

KW - regional differences

M3 - Working paper

BT - Regional Differences in Food Consumption in Urban Mozambique

PB - Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen

ER -