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then apply this methodology to a detailed study of disaggregate household expenditure across 15 years. Our objective is to … assess the degree of intertemporal substitution across different household types avoiding aggregation bias and accounting for …
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A simple mathematical result characterizing a subset of a product set is proved and used to obtain additive representations of preferences. The additivity consequences of independence assumptions are obtained for preferences which are not total or transitive. This means that most of the economic...
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This paper decomposes the redistributive effect of indirect taxation into vertical, horizontal inequity and reranking effects. The latter two effects arise because households with the same total expenditure have different patterns. The pre-and post-GST structures in Australia are examined. The...
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This paper presents a new approach to the description of household size distributions. It has been found that a Poisson … distribution can be used to approximate the observed household size distribution in terms of a single parameter, namely the average … household size, where empty habitable dwellings are counted as size zero households. The approach adopted in this paper is …
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The degree of substitution between private and public per capita consumption for the G7 countries is estimated over the period 1960 to 1996. Special attention is given to isolating both long-run and short-run substitution effects.
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introduction of five types of household appliances. …
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Household production is the production of the goods and services by the members of a household, for their own … include accommodation, meals, clean clothes, and child care. The process of household production involves the transformation …
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Although there are numerous studies of the dowry phenonmenon in India, research pertaining to the custom in the rest of South Asia is sparse. The aim of this paper is to study dowry payments in Pakistan. Several interpretations for dowry are distinguished using a simple theoretical framework and...
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