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- Title
Consumer demand for food at home and food away from home: Understanding economic linkages during the pandemic.
- Authors
Balagtas, Joseph V.; Cooper, Joseph; McLaughlin, Patrick; Qin, Fei
- Abstract
Household food expenditure has shifted away from Food at Home (FAH) and towards Food Away from Home (FAFH). Prior to the COVID‐19 pandemic, FAFH's share of food expenditure surpassed that of FAH, reaching 55% in 2019. Yet economic research on FAFH and the interaction of FAFH and FAH has been limited. Combining scanner data for meat sales in grocery stores with data for FAFH expenditure, we estimate a model of demand for at‐home meat, incorporating FAFH expenditure as a demand shifter. We quantify substitution between FAFH expenditure and FAH meat and quantify the impact of the COVID‐19 disruptions to the food service sector on retail prices of FAH meat.
- Subjects
CONSUMPTION (Economics); RETAIL industry; SERVICE industries; FOOD industry; COVID-19 pandemic
- Publication
Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy, 2023, Vol 45, Issue 3, p1604
- ISSN
2040-5790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/aepp.13361