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experiments and different meth- ods of estimation. Furthermore, with regard to the expenditure on health services, I get that only …
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income or salaries. This paper aims to investigate the evolution of expenditure inequality in Cameroon over the 1984 …-1996 period, with the help of Lorenz Curves, the Gini coefficient, and two entropy measures of inequality. Total expenditure … household expenditure data derived from the 1984 and 1996 National household surveys (i.e. the 1983/1984 Household Consumption …
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experiments and different methods of estimation. Furthermore, with regard to the expenditure on health services, I get that only …
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travelling as a couple or not, turned out to be significant variables in influencing the resulting expenditure levels. …
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We estimate the extent of income underreporting among working households, using data from an income survey linked with individual tax records for Estonia. Income underreporting is inferred from consumption propensities, following and extending the method by Pissarides andWeber (1989). Our...
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This paper considers what role in-home barcode scanner data could play in collecting household expenditure information … surveys accentuate rather than close the gap. We also demonstrate that patterns of expenditure across the surveys are much … involved use of scanner data would be to impute detailed commodity-level expenditure patterns given only information on total …
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Standard economic theory implies that the labelling of cash transfers or cash-equivalents (e.g. child benefits, food stamps) should have no effect on spending patterns. The empirical literature to date does not contradict this proposition. We study the UK Winter Fuel Payment (WFP), a cash...
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expenditure in Luxembourg. Cross-border consumption expenditure is shown to depend on individual and household characteristics …
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an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to women increases the expenditure share on food by … about 4 to 5 percentage points. At low levels of food expenditure, we observe a shift towards a more nutritious diet as a …
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In terms of collecting comprehensive panel expenditure data, there are trade-offs to be made in terms of the demands … be cross-sectional whilst panel studies include only limited expenditure questions that record spending only as broad … compare the demographic representativeness of the data to the wellestablished Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS), constructing …
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