This paper analyses Turkish household food consumption, using data from the 2003 Turkish Household Expenditure Survey … conventional economic variables in explaining observed differences in the household's food consumption patterns in Turkey …

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 …

members. In relation to household production model, our estimation results depict that when hours of work of spouses increase …Gender roles in household consumption patterns have been studied in the literature in relation to two models of … household behavior; household production model and the unitary versus non-unitary models of the family decision making. The …

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 …

We comment on a recent important article by Akbay et al. and discuss some methodological and estimation issues arising …