This paper estimates the price elasticity of demand for pharmaceuticals amongst high-income older people in Australia. It exploits a natural experiment by which some people gained entitlement to a price reduction through the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card (CSHC). To the author’s knowledge,...

El presente artículo es el primero en utilizar datos individuales para analizar la demanda por AFP en Chile. El estudio emplea técnicas de datos de panel que permiten estimar la probabilidad de traspaso de un afiliado. Los resultados obtenidos confirman el rol reponderante de las fuerzas de...

When attempting to identify empirical regularities in consumption patterns, their tremendous diversity across countries represents both a major opportunity and challenge. For example, consumers in rich countries devote less than 20 percent of their budget to food, while this rises to more than...

This paper examines who makes decisions in households and the factors that influence those decisions. This research was done in Venezuela, where women were questioned on decision-making with respect to four subject areas. Results indicate that a majority of households make decisions jointly....

This empirical research analyzes the determinants of Colombian household revenues and expenditures. Using a life cycle model with data from the national household survey 1994-1995, the paper shows how the behavior of household income is mainly affected by demographic characteristics and by the...

This paper uses an hedonic price approach to estimate the effect of petrol price changes on fuel efficiency and other attributes using data for new cars in the UK. In contrast with Atkinson and Halvorsen (1984), the long-run petrol price elasticity of demand for fuel efficiency is very small,...

This study develops a model which can be used to evaluate the producer price effects and regional consumer price effects of alternative methods of financing social security, i.e. employers social security contributions and value added taxes. In the model system producer prices are determined by...

Several models of intra-household decision making have been suggested in the literature. We present a framework that includes all suggested models and variants as special cases. We derive the theoretical predictions of these models for the relationship between expenditures on goods and the...

In recent literature, it has been suggested that consumers need have no knowledge of product quality as a number of quality indicators (or signals) may be used as substitutes. Very little attention has been paid to the empirical verification of these studies. The present paper is devoted to the...

A nationwide household survey for Mozambique is used to estimate a large censored food demand system with 12 food groups for the sample of urban households. Using the translog indirect utility approach, the censored nature of the data is addressed by estimating a system of Tobit equations with a...