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on National Survey of Family Income and Expenditure data to measure the bias. The estimated bias for the period 1989 to …
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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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between income growth and nutritional improvement is still unclear. In contrast with the biased indirect method, this paper … employs a direct method to estimate the income elasticities of 22 nutrients using household survey data to fill the gap in the … current literature. Our results indicate that the income elasticities of most nutrients are smaller than that which is stated …
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We first examine the determinants of household expenditures on space heating and hot water supply in Germany. A number of socio-economic characteristics of households are included along with building characteristics. Our analysis covers information on more than 12,000 households in Germany 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 document, we investigate the evolution of the income elasticity and the price elasticity of the demand for … elasticity of gasoline demand. This shift, not present in the income elasticity, occurred almost at the beginning of the period …
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As a typical developing Asian county, the growth in per capita income generally brings to diversification in Malaysians … Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS). The empirical results indicate that income elasticity of demand for rice (0.7104) is the … highest compared to other food items in the LA/AIDS model, while income elasticity of demand for wheat (0.5087) is higher than …
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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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skipping the imputation methods used by the previous literature to mitigate the significant lack of income and consumption … obtain that durable purchases are a source of insurance with respect to transitory shocks and the effect of family income …
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(Survey of Households’ Income and Wealth, SHIW) by the Bank of Italy. In particular, we combine information from the … allows to jointly analyze income, wealth and consumption distributions with a high degree of detail for both incomes … consumption income and wealth and to provide a basis for an integrated microsimulation analysis of direct, indirect and wealth tax …
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