Accounting for Changes in Tastes
使用非参数需求分析方法，发现美国和澳大利亚的肉类消费模式仅由相对价格和支出解释，而计量经济模型中的设定错误可能导致误判品味变化。
Health concerns are thought by many to have shifted consumption away from red meats, though econometric evidence is mixed. Testing for structural change is difficult, especially when on e time series is used for both estimating demand equations and testin g their stability. Specification errors may suggest a shift where non e has occurred. Using nonparametric demand analysis, the authors find that meat consumption patterns in the United States and Australia ca n be explained using only relative prices and expenditures. Only impo sing particular functional forms can reverse the conclusion, suggesti ng that specification errors in econometric demand studies can accoun t for findings of taste changes. Copyright 1988 by University of Chicago Press.