IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/jagaec/v53y2021i2p280-300_7.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An Empirical Evaluation of Egg Demand in the United States

Author

Listed:
  • Bakhtavoryan, Rafael
  • Hovhannisyan, Vardges
  • Devadoss, Stephen
  • Lopez, Jose

Abstract

We adopt an EASI model to estimate demand for omega-3, organic, cage-free, and conventional eggs in the United States. Our empirical framework accounts for demand inter-dependencies among these egg types, while allowing for unrestricted Engel curves, unobserved consumer heterogeneity, and a broader product and geographic coverage. We further address endogeneity of prices and expenditures and left-censoring induced by disaggregate data. Our results indicate that the demand for organic and cage-free eggs is price-elastic, while the demand for omega-3 and conventional eggs is price-inelastic. Additionally, we establish strong substitutability relationships between the eggs. Finally, we measure consumer welfare consequences of rising domestic egg prices brought by Japan’s egg import tariff reductions.

Suggested Citation

  • Bakhtavoryan, Rafael & Hovhannisyan, Vardges & Devadoss, Stephen & Lopez, Jose, 2021. "An Empirical Evaluation of Egg Demand in the United States," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 53(2), pages 280-300, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jagaec:v:53:y:2021:i:2:p:280-300_7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1074070821000092/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:jagaec:v:53:y:2021:i:2:p:280-300_7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/aae .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.