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A Cohort Analysis of Food-at-Home and Food-away-from-Home Expenditures in Germany

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  • Drescher, Larissa S.
  • Roosen, Jutta

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Over the last decades and across countries, eating patterns have changed in favour of increasing consumption of food away from home. According to Ando and Modigliani (1957), consumers pass through different stages of a life-cycle with different impacts on demand. The criticism that life-cycle theory neglects generational effects and concentrates only on ageing effects has led to the application of the cohort analysis, which decomposes not only age, but also period and cohort effects. This paper presents the results of a cohort analysis on food-at-home and food-away-fromhome consumption covering 25 years of German consumption data. The results of seemingly unrelated regressions indicate that there are significant age, period and cohort effects on food-at-home and foodaway- from-home expenditures, which are more distinct for food-at-home consumption. This paper also finds evidence for the significant effects of gender, occupation, household composition and region on both expenditure categories. For instance, the effect of being female is negative on both types of expenditures. Moreover, there is a non-linear relationship between household size and both food-at-home and food-away-from-home-consumption. Über Jahrzehnte und Länder hinweg haben sich die Ernährungsgewohnheiten der Verbraucher in Richtung einer Zunahme des Außer-Haus-Verzehrs verändert. Nach Ando und Modigliani (1957) durchlaufen Konsumenten verschiedene Stufen eines Lebenszyklus‘ mit unterschiedlichen Auswirkungen auf die Nachfrage. Da die Lebenszyklustheorie nur Alterseffekte berücksichtigt, wird die Kohortenanalyse eingesetzt, die neben Alterseffekten auch Zeit- und Kohorteneffekte einbezieht. Dieses Papier präsentiert die Ergebnisse einer Kohortenanalyse des Inner- und Außer-Haus- Verzehrs basierend auf 25 Jahre umfassenden Verbrauchsdaten aus Deutschland. Ergebnisse von SURRegressionen zeigen, dass signifikante Alters-, Zeitund Kohorteneffekte des Inner- und des Außer-Haus- Verzehrs in Deutschland vorliegen. Diese Arbeit findet signifikante Unterschiede für beide Ausgabenkategorien nach Geschlecht, Beruf, Haushaltszusammensetzung und Region. So haben Frauen geringere Ausgaben sowohl für den Inner- als auch den Außer- Haus-Verzehr. Außerdem ergibt sich ein nichtlinearer Zusammenhang zwischen der Haushaltsgröße und dem Inner- und Außer-Haus-Verzehr.

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  • Drescher, Larissa S. & Roosen, Jutta, 2013. "A Cohort Analysis of Food-at-Home and Food-away-from-Home Expenditures in Germany," German Journal of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Department for Agricultural Economics, vol. 62(01), pages 1-13, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:gjagec:232331
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.232331
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