What drives our Beer Consumption?---In Search of Nutrition Habits and Demographic Patterns

Conventional wisdom in Germany claims pork hocks with sauerkraut and beer. But is it really that simple? In an unbalanced cross-country panel covering 169 nations and time-series records of up to 52 years, we analyse drivers behind beer consumption. Based on data gathered from Worldbank and Faostat,...

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Published inApplied economics Vol. 51; no. 41; pp. 4539 - 4550
Main Authors Angerer, M., Dünser, M., Kaiser, L., Peter, G., Stöckl, S., Veress, A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 02.09.2019
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Beer consumption
cross-country evidence
demographics
nutrition habits
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Summary:Conventional wisdom in Germany claims pork hocks with sauerkraut and beer. But is it really that simple? In an unbalanced cross-country panel covering 169 nations and time-series records of up to 52 years, we analyse drivers behind beer consumption. Based on data gathered from Worldbank and Faostat, we run multivariate panel regressions and test for the explanatory power of three categories of food and six macroeconomic and demographic variables. Indeed, we confirm most clichés of a typical beer drinker being a middle-aged urbanite with a strong desire for pork and potatoes, however, disliking cheese and wine.
ISSN:0003-6846
1466-4283
DOI:10.1080/00036846.2019.1593938