In this paper we are interested in estimating semiparametric Engel curves for different categoriesof goods using data drawn from the 1997 Family Expenditure Survey (ECV1997). Most of the papersabout consumer behavior include food and clothing shares in the analysis. Since people in...

The form of the Engel curve has long been a subject of discussion in applied econometrics and until now there has no been definitive conclusion about its form. In this paper an additive partially linear model is used to estimate semiparametrically the effect of total expenditure in the context...