Search Results - subject:"Income elasticity"

Estimation with macroeconomic variables in long-term elasticity of gasoline consumption

Lestari, Setyani Dwi; Indrabudiman, Amir; Handayani, … - In: International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy : IJEEP 9 (2019) 1, pp. 326-329

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Comparative sectoral price elasticities of U.S. energy demand

Addey, Kwame Asiam; Shaik, Saleem; Sakouvogui, Kekoura - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-17

A sustainable energy system is key for addressing the world’s environmental and social challenges. The U.S is the second largest consumer of energy, with increased energy consumption in the previous half-century. To curb energy demand, it is essential to understand the relative price...

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An Experimental Study of Monthly Electricity Demand (In)Elasticity

Byrne, David P. - 2019

We document substantial rigidity in household electricity demand in response to large price shocks. We partnered with an electricity retailer to run a field experiment in which randomly-selected households received discounts of up to 50% on their total electricity bill or up to 95% off their per...

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The Income Elasticity of Child Labour : Do Cash Transfers Have an Impact on the Poorest Children?

Pellerano, Luca - 2019

The possible non linearity of the income elasticity of child labour has been at the centre of the debate regarding both …

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The Income Elasticity for Nutrition : Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya

Almås, Ingvild - 2019

We use a randomized controlled trial to study the effect of large income changes, through unconditional cash transfers, on the food share of expenditures and consumption of calories among poor households in rural Kenya. Our preferred estimate of the food elasticity following USD 709 transfers is...

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Nutritional inequality: the role of prices, income, and preferences

Amano-Patiño, Noriko - 2019

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Evidence of the environmental kuznets curve in emerging Eastern European economies

Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Koilo, Viktoriia - 2019

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Income and price elasticities of Macedonian export and import of goods : a panel approach

Janevska Stefanova, Dijana; Petrovska, Magdalena - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 6 (2019) 2, pp. 5-19

This paper uses a sectoral version of the conventional Imperfect substitutes model to motivate a parsimonious estimation of trade elasticities. The elasticities we compute depend directly on the specialization of trade across sectors, which is believed to add econometric precision to our...

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Estimating energy price elasticities when salience is high : residential natural gas demand in Ukraine

Alberini, Anna; Khymych, Olha; Ščasný, Milan - 2019

Despite its importance for policy purposes (including climate policy and the energy transition), evidence about the price elasticity of natural gas demand in the residential sector is very limited and based on inference from situations with modest variation in prices. We focus on a locale and...

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On bunching and identification of the taxable income elasticity

Blomquist, Nils Sören; Newey, Whitney K.; Kumar, Anil; … - 2019

The taxable income elasticity is a key parameter for predicting the e?ect of tax reform or designing an income tax …. Bunching at kinks and notches in a single budget set have been used to estimate the taxable income elasticity. We show that … the size of the taxable income elasticity, and neither is the entire distribution of taxable income for a convex budget …

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