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on 387 calorie-income elasticities collected from 90 primary studies, our results identify that the threshold income for …
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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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these areas still experience stunting and wasting. This study examines whether the distribution of the income elasticity for …
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Literature on residential water demand is rich, however, there are few estimates of price and income elasticities for …, our estimates of price and income elasticity indicate low responsiveness of households. The estimate of income elasticity … is about +0.16 and robust across all model specifications, and the effect of income is decreasing with household wealth …
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uses the recently released 2018 Family Income and Expenditure Survey and the Stone-Lewbel price index in the absence of … compared with that for other food groups. The income elasticity for rice is inelastic (0.26), slightly higher than the income … elasticity for sugar. Demand for rice is generally less elastic for higher-income Filipinos and families residing in urban areas …
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decomposing disposable income into labour, property and transfer income is essential for understanding and forecasting consumption …. Finally, substantial crosscountry heterogeneity in marginal propensities to consume out of income and wealth components calls …
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We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a … suggested by the theory of incomplete markets, we differentiate between the effects of persistent and transitory income shocks … is rather associated with a decline in happiness. -- incomplete markets ; happiness ; income persistence …
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This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income … significant effects of precautionary savings on the consumption-savings decision. As a result of a doubling of transitory income …. -- Consumption-savings decision ; interest rate elasticity of savings ; income uncertainty …
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In the context of income dynamics, we investigate whether aspects of agents' superior information relative to the … econometrician cannot observe idiosyncratic shocks to both permanent and transitory components of income. In this case perceptions of … households. We find evidence of superior information consistent with standard income modelling. -- subjective expectation reports …
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This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income … significant effects of precautionary savings on the consumption-savings decision. As a result of a doubling of transitory income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138012