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dc.contributor.authorHamersh, Daniel S.en
dc.date.accessioned2006-03-10-
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-14T11:09:43Z-
dc.date.available2010-05-14T11:09:43Z-
dc.date.issued2006-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/31652-
dc.description.abstractEating requires the raw food materials that make up meals and also the time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the United States for 1985 and 2003, I examine how income and time prices affect both time and goods input into this household-produced commodity. By focusing on these two years, between which income and earnings inequality increased, I analyze how household production is affected by changing economic opportunities. The results demonstrate that inputs into eating increase with income, and higher time prices at a given level of income reduce time inputs. Over this period the relative goods intensity of producing this commodity increased, especially at the lower part of the income distribution, and the average time input dropped substantially. The results are consistent with goods-time substitution being relatively difficult for eating and with substitution becoming relatively more difficult as production expands.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aLevy Economics Institute of Bard College |cAnnandale-on-Hudson, NYen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWorking Paper |x434en
dc.subject.jelD13en
dc.subject.jelJ22en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordHousehold productionen
dc.subject.keywordinequalityen
dc.subject.keywordwell-beingen
dc.titleTime to eat: household production under increasing income inequality-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn508790085en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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