This document tries to quantify the possible impacts, on the natural gas consumption, of changes in the flat sale price …

We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …

In this paper we explore the statistical properties of the distributions of consumption expenditures for a large sample …-conditioned) consumption distributions are not log-normal. Rather, their logs can be invariably characterized by asymmetric exponential … attempts to explain log-normality of household consumption patterns by means of simple models based on Gibrat's Law applied to …

increased reported net income inequality while reducing consumption inequality. To the extent that consumption approximates …

empirical regularity, which is that the distribution of consumption expenditures across households is, within cohorts, closer to …

In this paper we explore the statistical properties of the distributions of consumption expenditures for a large sample …-conditioned) consumption distributions are not log-normal. Rather, their logs can be invariably characterized by asymmetric exponential … attempts to explain log-normality of household consumption patterns by means of simple models based on Gibrat's Law applied to …