expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most … commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury items for children. Children of lone parents have lower budget shares for … suggesting that children mimic their parent's expenditure patterns. …

expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most … commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury items for children. Children of lone parents have lower budget shares for … suggesting that children mimic their parent's expenditure patterns. …

primarily changes income and expenditure patterns, widowhood fundamentally changes the structure of the household. Beside high … consumption are lost. This paper applies the Lewbel and Pendakur (2008) collective household model to expenditure data on elderly … households in Switzerland. The findings suggest that between 40 and 50% of household resources are assigned to wives and both …

This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population …

differences in the prices paid for the same product and differences in the household-specific variety choice within a category … household behaviour, a significant and time-varying inflation difference between income groups emerges. Substitution is strongly … behaviour-driven and largely detached from the relative price. The dispersion of the household-level elasticity of substitution …

system (QUAIDS) model controlling also for total expenditure on food, region of residence, household size, age of head of … household, whether women are working, number of time in which the household buys ready food, household type and income quartiles …

overestimates the mean of individual elasticities for many commodity groups. -- household demand ; aggregation ; heterogeneity …