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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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This paper proposes a simple non-parametric framework to calculate income elasticities from a data set of observed …). The framework is used to calculate income elasticities for food and non-alcoholic drinks from a rich panel of household …
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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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. Different values for income elasticities could be a major reason. This study projects meat and cereals demand for China based on … a meta-analysis of the income elasticity estimates using a collection of 143 and 240 income elasticity estimates for … cereals and meat products, respectively, from 36 primary studies. We find that income elasticities for most cereals (general …
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of income elasticities, i.e. expenditure hierarchies, we show how this diversification process on the national level is … correlated with cultural norms, GDP and income inequality. We find that national expenditure hierarchies are relatively similar … tends to generate more niche consumption patterns by examining how rising income is positively correlated with demand …
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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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In this paper, we estimate consumption in the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey for a subset of countries that account for around 85% of the aggregate final consumption expenditure of households in the euro area. For this purpose we use the methodology...
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In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … that there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants - also in terms of the … direction of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according …
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We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the … importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income …
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