deserves analysis.  The literature on structural change has emphasised changing patterns of demand as an explanation for the … increasing importance of the services sector.  In order to establish the significance of private final demand as an explanation … censored quantile regressions to analyse household survey data in 1993-94 and 2004-05.  We find upward sloping Engel curves …

It is universally accepted that children have important effects on household demand patterns. This is usually … observed correlations between children and demand patterns are due to non-direct effects, such as fixed effects, state … dependence or intra-household effects. These non-direct effects make the consistent estimation of direct effects problematic. We …

This paper compares the goods and characteristics models of the consumer within a traditional demand framework.  We ….  We implement these procedures on household panel data from the UK milk market.  The primary result is that the better fit …

generate a poverty trap.  The setting is rural China, and the data are from a national household survey for 2002, designed with … research hypotheses in mind.  Enrolment is high in rural China by comparison with most poor rural societies, but the quality of … second examines the effects of education.  It shows how and why the returns to education vary according to household and …

countries.  It poses the question: why do rural-urban migrant households settled in urban China have an average happiness score ….  Estimated happiness functions and decomposition analyses, based on a 2002 national household survey, suggest that their high …

. It poses the question: why do rural-urban migrant households settled in urban China have an average happiness score lower … decomposition analyses, based on a 2002 national household survey, indicate that certain features of migrant conditions make for …

The paper examines the notion of a 'developmental state' and shows that China possesses the characteristics of a … developmental state.  It explains the political economy which generated such a state in China and in some other economies.  It … the question: can China's developmental state be sustained?  Conclusions are drawn for both China and other developing …

The paper analyses two cross-section national household surveys, relating to the years 1988 and 1995, to explain the … rise in inequality of income that occured in Chine over those seven years. The Gini coefficient of household income per … economic devide betweeen rural and urban China, the rural and urban samples are analysed separately. The two main explanations …

there is strong son preference in rural China, we postulate two main hypotheses: income-based sex selection making it more …, this is the first study to test these hypotheses in rural China and more generally in developing countries. …