American Economic Review Vol. 78 No. 3 1988
Quality, Quantity, and Spatial Variation of Price
Abstract
In many household surveys, geographically clustered households report unit values of foods, which when corrected for quality effects and for measurement error, indicate the underlying spatial variation in prices, and can be matched to variation in demand patterns so as to estimate price elasticities. A 1979 household survey from the Côte d'Ivoire is used to estimate price elasticities for beef, meat, fish, cereals, and starches.
- Volume
- 78
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 418-430
- Sources
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