Food quality, calories and household income

Applied Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 28, 2011, Pages 4331-4342

  Skoufias, Emmanuel ^a   Di Maro, Vincenzo ^b   González Cossío, Teresa ^c   Ramirez, Sonia Rodríguez ^c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD QUALITY; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RURAL SOCIETY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84860399471     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2010.491454     Document Type: Article

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