Predicting within country household food expenditure variation using international cross-section estimates

Type Journal Article - Economics Letters
Title Predicting within country household food expenditure variation using international cross-section estimates
Author(s)
Volume 113
Issue 3
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2011
Page numbers 218-220
URL http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~hertel/data/uploads/publications/verma-et-al-economics-letters.pdf
Abstract
International cross-section demand systems have not been tested on their ability to accurately predict
within country consumption expenditures. This paper reports on such a validation exercise for the case
of food budget share predictions across expenditure percentiles within Bangladesh.

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