Search Results - subject:"Income elasticity"

Determinants of Various Aspects of Smoking Behaviour in the United States

Goel, Rajeev K. - 2016

Using state-level data for the United States, this study uniquely examines the effects of cigarette prices and income on seven dimensions of smoking behaviour. Results show that income-based policies are relatively more effective than price- or tax-based policies. Smokers considering quitting...

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Quantile-Regression Estimates of Cigarette Demand Elasticities for the United States

Goel, Rajeev K. - 2016

elasticity and income elasticity for cigarette demand are obtained. It is noted that price elasticity shows a sizable variation … across the high and low quantity-quartiles. There is a similar variability in the income elasticity, but most of these … estimates lack statistical significance. Besides providing an indication of the variation in the price (and income) elasticity …

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South-South trade and South-North trade : which contributes more to development in Asia and South America? : insights from estimating income elasticities of import demand

Bernhardt, Thomas - In: CEPAL review (2016) 118, pp. 97-114

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The effect of product demand on inequality: Evidence from the US and the UK

Leonardi, Marco - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...

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Health care expenditure and income in the OECD reconsidered: Evidence from panel data

Baltagi, Badi H.; Moscone, Francesco - 2010

This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of 20 OECD countries observed over the period 1971-2004. In particular, the paper studies the non-stationarity and cointegration properties between health care spending and income....

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Charitable giving in the German welfare state: Fiscal incentives and crowding out

Bönke, Timm; Massarrat-Mashhadi, Nima; Sielaff, Christian - 2010

Governmental activities in welfare states influence private charitable giving predominantly in two ways: (1) government spending on the provision of public goods may cause crowding out of private charitable contributions; and (2) tax incentives may boost private charitable giving. For a rich...

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Panel Data Estimates of the Demand for Money in the Pacific Island Countries

Kumar, Saten - 2010

The Pedroni (2000) panel cointegration method is used to estimate the cointegrating equations for the demand for narrow money for a panel of five Pacific Island Countries (Fiji, Samoa, Solomons, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea) for the period 1975-2007. The effects of financial reforms are analyzed...

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The income elasticity of meat: a meta-analysis

Gallet, Craig A. - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 54 (2010) 4

perform a meta-analysis of the income elasticity of meat that involves regressing 3357 estimated income elasticities … choosing an income elasticity from the literature. …

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Health Care Expenditure and Income in the OECD Reconsidered: Evidence from Panel Data

Baltagi, Badi H.; Moscone, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality: Evidence from the US and the UK

Leonardi, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550516