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This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand … synthesize research results on price and income elasticities of residentialwater demand report in the literature. These … empirical estimates of the price and income elasticity ofresidential water demand vary to such considerable extents. The set of …
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. Different values for income elasticities could be a major reason. This study projects meat and cereals demand for China based on … a meta-analysis of the income elasticity estimates using a collection of 143 and 240 income elasticity estimates for … cereals and meat products, respectively, from 36 primary studies. We find that income elasticities for most cereals (general …
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on 387 calorie-income elasticities collected from 90 primary studies, our results identify that the threshold income for …
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Literature on residential water demand is rich, however, there are few estimates of price and income elasticities for …, our estimates of price and income elasticity indicate low responsiveness of households. The estimate of income elasticity … is about +0.16 and robust across all model specifications, and the effect of income is decreasing with household wealth …
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In Great Britain several policy measures have been implemented in order to increase energy efficiency and to reduce carbon emissions. In the domestic sector, these targets can be achieved by improving space heating efficiency and, hence, decrease heating expenditures. However, before...
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This paper proposes a simple non-parametric framework to calculate income elasticities from a data set of observed …). The framework is used to calculate income elasticities for food and non-alcoholic drinks from a rich panel of household …
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of income elasticities, i.e. expenditure hierarchies, we show how this diversification process on the national level is … correlated with cultural norms, GDP and income inequality. We find that national expenditure hierarchies are relatively similar … tends to generate more niche consumption patterns by examining how rising income is positively correlated with demand …
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these areas still experience stunting and wasting. This study examines whether the distribution of the income elasticity for …
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-economic factors. Income results associated to a positive elasticity, though lower than one. The role of other socio-economic territory …
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In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … that there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants - also in terms of the … direction of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according …
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