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Abstract
Demand elasticities at the table cut level are computed from a Mexican survey of household
incomes and weekly expenditures, which is a stratified sample. A censored demand system is
estimated incorporating stratification variables and it results in unbiased parameter and elasticity
estimates, which can be interpreted as estimates of all Mexican meat-consuming households.
Their standard errors are rigorously approximated by bootstrapping. Several indicators of
heterogeneous meat-cut demands are found. Volumes traded differ among the table cuts of
meats; the probability of buying a particular meat cut changes across meat cuts and geographical
regions; and cases of substitutability and complementarity are identified within and across meat
categories.