this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric …

own-price elasticity of quantity demand for soda of between -1.0 and -1.3. These estimates ignore consumer responses on … the quality margin and correlated measurement errors. We use Mexican household budget survey data and city-level soda … prices to estimate unrestricted demand models that correct for both errors. The corrected own-price elasticity of quantity …

Using administrative panel data from Norway, we investigate the development of household labor income, financial wealth … ; precautionary saving ; consumption smoothing ; household portfolios ; portfolio allocation ; optimal unemployment insurance …

This paper estimates carbon emission from household consumption and investigates its determinants. We derive total … household carbon emission by using the mechanism of input-output analysis combine with household expenditure for 2005 and 2006 … goods are the least carbon intensive. After controlling for household characteristics, the analyses reveal that income has a …

household leverage concentrated in the bottom 95 percent ultimately spawned the Great Recession. The demand drag of rising …One might expect that rising US income inequality would reduce demand growth and create a drag on the economy because … disaggregating household spending, income, saving, and debt between the bottom 95 percent and top 5 percent of the income …

and household welfare. We estimate Euler equations and measure the volatility of unpredictable changes in consumption as …, and document that despite the increase in household debt between 1983 and 2007, there was no decline in the proportion of …

indices, demand systems and household clustering, we cluster household base on homogeneity of consumption behaviors and … such as, "What the equivalent amount of money for compensative welfare loss of household is through eliminating bread … estimate linear approximate almost ideal demand systems (LA\AIDS) for different clusters in five independent groups and also …

This paper examines whether relative income and income inequality within reference groups affect household consumption …. Using the explanations of consumption behavior based on Dusenberry's relative income hypothesis, we test if household … consumption levels in Turkey are affected by the household's relative position and inequality in the reference group between 2005 …