Arbeitspapier
The decline of home cooked food
The share of home-cooked food in the diet of UK households declined from the 1980s. This was contemporaneous with a decline in the market price of ingredients for home cooking relative to ready-to-eat foods. We consider a simple model of food consumption and time use which captures the key driving forces behind these apparently conflicting trends. We show that observed behaviour can be rationalised by the fact that the shadow price of home-cooked food, which accounts for the fact that cooking takes time, has risen relative to the price of ready-to-eat food, due to the increase in the market value of time of secondary earners. We discuss the implications for policies that aim to encourage healthier diets.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IFS Working Paper ; No. W21/14
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Health Behavior
- Subject
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food consumption
time use
home production
shadow prices
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Griffith, Rachel
Jin, Wenchao
Lechene, Valérie
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
- (where)
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London
- (when)
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2021
- DOI
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doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2021.1421
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Griffith, Rachel
- Jin, Wenchao
- Lechene, Valérie
- Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
Time of origin
- 2021
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