The Internal Structure of U. S. Consumption Expenditures

Preface -- A Different Way of Looking at Consumption Behavior -- Stability of The Internal Structure of Consumption Expenditures -- Stability of The Internal Structure of Consumption Expenditure II: Interpretation and Further Analyses -- Effects of A Change In Expenditures For One Good on Expenditures of Other Goods -- Background, Interpretation, and Speculation -- A Brief Look at Intra-Budget Coefficients by Quintiles of Consumption Expenditure -- Estimation of Price Elasticities With Data From The BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys -- Summary, Conclusions, and Final Exercises -- Appendix 1 Data and Definitions -- Appendix 2 Distributions of Residuals and Differences In Expenditure and Budget-Share Coefficients -- Appendix 3 Data Used in Chapter 7 -- References -- Index.