Economic transition and household food consumption: A study of Bulgaria from 1985 to 2002

Ivanova, L. V.; Dimitrov, Plamen; Ovcharova, D; Dellava, Jocilyn E.; Hoffman, Daniël J.

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2006.08.001

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“…In their study of the economic transition in Bulgaria, Ivanova et al (2006) reported a relatively greater decrease in the consumption of more expensive foods per unit of energy (-34% for animal products, -19% for visible fats, but only -10% for carbohydrates).…”

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Economic crisis and the unemployment effect on household food expenditure: The case of Spain

2017

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This paper examines the unemployment effect on food expenditure (UEFE) for Spanish households and quantifies its magnitude in boom and crisis periods. The results show that the UEFE was negative in both contexts but was reinforced during the economic crisis. Applying propensity score matching and difference-in-differences techniques to a sample of Spanish households for 2006 and 2013 (representative of a boom period and a crisis period, respectively), we found that the UEFE amounted to 2.9% in the boom period and to 4.5% in the crisis period. Quantile difference-in-differences estimates confirmed that the economic crisis enhanced the UEFE for Spanish households, with this effect decreasing continuously up to quantile 0.9. The UEFE was exacerbated mainly in those economically disadvantaged households.

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Economic crisis and the unemployment effect on household food expenditure: The case of Spain

2017

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“…Dietary intakes vary considerably across SES and also in time. Similarly to the Bulgarian ndings of Ivanova et al (2006), a general deterioration of post-transition dietary habits is observed; however, some SES groups managed to shift their food consumption towards healthier intake patterns.…”

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“…Although direct comparison of 1993 and 2007 regression coef cients should be done with care since variables are not entirely the same in the two databases, the analysis gives insight not only into consumption and dietary habit differences across SES groups, but also into their change in time. The latter is a rather important issue in the postcommunist economies, where the economic transformations that started in 1990 had a deep impact upon population purchase power, income and, indeed, food consumption habits (Ivanova et al, 2006). Finally, a multinomial logit analysis is performed.…”

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Socio-Economic Status and the Structural Change of Dietary Intake in Hungary

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Fertő

Marreiros

2014

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Economics and Business

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Abstract. Typically, big changes in the economic system lead to alterations on families' disposable income and thus on their spending for different types of products, including food. These may imply in the long run a structural modi cation of the population's diet quality. After the fall of the socialist system, in the past two decades, Central and Eastern European countries, including Hungary, went through a profound and sometimes dif cult transition of their political and economic systems, shifting from a centralized plan to an open-market economy, and, perhaps more importantly, the European Union integration. Economic change in lower-income and transitional economies of the world appears to coincide with increasing rapid social change. With respect to nutrition, there is evidence that these countries are changing their diets and that changes seem to happen at a faster pace than ever before (e.g. Ivanova et al., 2006). In this paper, we analyse the evolution of Hungarian dietary patterns based on socio-economic status (SES) data between 1993 and 2007. Data allows de ning and pro ling several clusters based on aggregated consumption data, and then inspecting the in uence of SES variables using OLS and multinomial logit estimations.

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“…It is common knowledge that as households become wealthier, their budget share allocated to food is on average decreasing (Engel's law). Empirical research about consumption in transition countries, however, shows that both the level of food expenditure and the quantity consumed in terms of calories increase with growing income (Ivanova, Dimitrov, Ovchariva, Dellava, and Hoffman 2006). Do households consume also qualitatively better food, when they become richer?…”

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More or better? Measuring quality versus quantity in food consumption

Manig¹,

Moneta

2013

J Bioecon

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As people become richer they get the opportunity of consuming more but also qualitatively better goods. This holds for a basic commodity like food as well. We investigate food consumption in Russia, taking into account both expenditure and nutrition value in terms of calories. We analyze how food consumption patterns change with increasing income by estimating both "quantity Engel curves" and "quality Engel curves." The former describe the functional dependence of calories consumed on total expenditure. The latter trace out the dependence of price per calorie as a proxy for quality on total expenditure. We compare income elasticities of quantity with income elasticities of quality. In these Russian data for years 2000-2002 the reaction of quality to changes in income is significantly stronger than the reaction of quantity to income changes suggesting that Russian households tend to choose higher quality food items as income rises.

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Economic transition and household food consumption: A study of Bulgaria from 1985 to 2002

Cited by 26 publications

References 20 publications

Economic crisis and the unemployment effect on household food expenditure: The case of Spain

Economic crisis and the unemployment effect on household food expenditure: The case of Spain

Socio-Economic Status and the Structural Change of Dietary Intake in Hungary

More or better? Measuring quality versus quantity in food consumption

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