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The demand for school meal services by Swiss households

Filippini, Massimo ; Masiero, Giuliano ; Medici, Diego

In: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2014, vol. 85, no. 3, p. 475-495

In this paper we investigate the household demand for childcare during lunchtime at school using a stated preferences approach. Data are collected through phone- structured interviews to 905 residents with children in the German-speaking region of Switzerland during 2007. Poisson models with random and fixed effects are used to explore factors affecting the demand. Ordinal probit models are also...

Università della Svizzera italiana

The demand for school meals : an analysis of stated choices by Swiss households

Filippini, Massimo ; Masiero, Giuliano ; Medici, Diego

In this paper we investigate households ’demand for school meals using a stated preferences approach. Data are collected through phone-structured interviews to 905 residents with children in the German-speaking region of Switzerland during 2007. A Poisson model with random effects is used to explore factors affecting the demand for meals at school. The results show that meals price, household...