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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
卷 76, 期 -, 页码 420-438出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eap.2022.08.017
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Caloric consumption efficiency; Import dependency; Stochastic cost frontier
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Using the stochastic cost frontier, this study estimated the determinants of cost inefficiency of total caloric and cereal and pulses-based caloric consumption at the household level in Sri Lanka. The results suggest that a high reliance on imported food can help improve cost efficiency for food-poor and urban households.
Using the stochastic cost frontier, we estimated the determinants of cost inefficiency of total caloric and cereal and pulses-based caloric consumption in Sri Lanka at the household level. We specifically tested whether high reliance on imported food helps poor, food- poor, and urban households to be cost-efficient. We estimated the cost frontiers employing half normal and truncated normal distribution assumptions. We found that truncated normal specifications are more appropriate. Our results show that food-poor households with higher reliance on imported calories are more cost-efficient in total and cereal and pulses-based caloric consumption. Urban households with a high import dependency on cereal and pulses-based consumption are found to be more cost-efficient. Our results call for prudent trade policies that do not deprive food-poor and urban households of imported food as the policy biases favouring domestic food production will disproportionately affect the food-poor and urban households. (c) 2022 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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