The quaids ado files written by Brian Poi provide a good template for constructing alternative ado files for maximum likelihood estimation of demand systems. I describe how I used the template to construct ado files to estimate a five commodity almost ideal demand system with demographic...

In a June, 2009 American Economic Review article entitled "Tricks with Hicks: The EASI Demand System", Arthur Lewbel and Krishna Pendakur proposed the exact affine Stone index demand system. This system allows Engel curve behavior higher than rank 3, demographics, and unobserved heterogeneity in...