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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2005
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 05/03
Verlag: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Zusammenfassung: 
We show that as household size increases, households substitute away from prepared foods and towards ingredients. They also devote more time to food preparation. These observations (1) are consistent with a simple model with home production, returns to scale in the time input to food preparation, and varieties of food that differ in the required time input; (2) support the idea that returns to scale in home production are an important source of returns to scale in consumption; and (3), mean that across household sizes, household market expenditures on food are not proportional to food consumption quantities. The latter may provide a partial explanation for a puzzle raised by Deaton and Paxson.
Schlagwörter: 
Household returns to scale
home production
food preparation
JEL: 
D11
D12
D13
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