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Demand systems with unit values : a comparison of two specifications
Lahatte, Agénor; Miquel, Ruth; Laisney, François; … - 1997
The availability of quantity information along with expenditure information in some household surveys allows the … estimation of price reactions on the basis of unit values. We compare two specifications that have been proposed in this context …
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How Economic Development Shapes Household Structure and the Age of Leaving Home and Household Formation : Evidence from 67 Countries’ ‘Big Microdata’
Monkkonen, Paavo - 2016
The question of whether household structure converges with economic growth and urbanization. The question of whether … household structure converges with economic growth and urbanization has been long discussed, but comparative empirical evidence … growth, urbanization, household structure, the age at which individuals leave their parents' home, and the age at which they …
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Family, household and work : with 106 tables
Zimmermann, Klaus F. (ed.) - 2003
household, the family structure and development, and the transition to work of young adults. …
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Identifying the Poor - Accounting for Household Economies of Scale in Global Poverty Estimates
Jolliffe, Dean; Tetteh-Baah, Samuel - 2022
scale in household size a family of six needs three times as much as a family of two. This paper examines the sensitivity of … global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household … current-method estimates with a constant- elasticity scale adjustment that divides total household consumption or income not …
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Identifying the Poor : Accounting for Household Economies of Scale in Global Poverty Estimates
Jolliffe, Dean; Tetteh Baah, Samuel Kofi - 2022
scale in household size - a family of six needs three times as much as a family of two. This paper examines the sensitivity … household surveys from 162 countries covering 98 percent of the population estimated to be in extreme poverty in 2017. The paper … compares current-method estimates with a constant-elasticity scale adjustment that divides total household consumption or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013544940
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Identifying the Poor : Accounting for Household Economies of Scale in Global Poverty Estimates
Jolliffe, Dean - 2022
scale in household size-a family of six needs three times as much as a family of two. This paper examines the sensitivity of … global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household … compares current-method estimates with a constant-elasticity scale adjustment that divides total household consumption or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473476
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Determinants of consumption and consumer behaviors in Poland in the context of globalization
Sobczyk, Genowefa - In: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska / H 51 (2017) 2, pp. 219-226
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Pricing carbon consumption : a review of an emerging trend
Munnings, Clayton; Acworth, William; Sartor, Oliver; … - 2016
Nearly every carbon price regulates the production of carbon emissions, typically at midstream points of compliance, such as a power plant. Over the last six years, however, policymakers in Australia, California, China, Japan, and Korea implemented carbon prices that regulate the consumption of...
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GLOBAL CONSUMPTION PATTERNS, QUALITY AND FOOD DEMAND
Clements, Kenneth W.; Vo, Long - 2021
There are significant disparities in the wealth of nations and how incomes are spent. For example, consumers in the poorest countries spend more than half of income on food, whilein the richest countries, this is one-tenth or less. We use the recently published data from theInternational...
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A review of the literature on gender and international family joint migration
Freitas Monteiro, Teresa - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 16 (2024) 1, pp. 19-59
migration model and household models in economics. The central section of this article documents the models of family migration … of individual migration and can gain from incorporating gender-theories and the recent developments in household models. …
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