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Analysis of Housewives' Grocery Shopping Behavior in Taiwan: An Application of the Poisson Switching Regression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Kamhon Kan  and
Tsu-Tan Fu
Kamhon Kan
Affiliation:
Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Tsu-Tan Fu
Affiliation:
Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate Taiwanese married women's grocery shopping behavior in relation to their labor force participation status. In this study, focus is limited to their grocery shopping frequency which is meant to be a proxy for an input to household production, i.e., food at home. A Poisson switching regression model is developed to estimate parameters of married women's shopping behavior. The results show that the labor force participation status does have a great impact on time allocation behavior.

Keywords

household productionlabor supply rationingPoisson switching regressionshopping frequencytime allocation
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , December 1997 , pp. 397 - 407
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1998

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