Search Results - subject:"Income elasticity"

The Sustainability of European Health Care Systems: Beyond Income and Ageing

Pammolli, Fabio; Riccaboni, Massimo; Magazzini, Laura - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

During the last thirty years health care expenditure (HCE) has been growing much more rapidly than GDP in all OECD countries. Against this background, we look at the determinants of HCE growth in Europe, explicitly taking into account the role of income, ageing population, life habits,...

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Food price inflation and schooling

Grimm, Michael - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2008

In the middle of the nineties the rural population in Burkina Faso was seriously hit by rising food prices. Whereas cotton farmers were able to cope with this shock given the simultaneous boom in the cotton sector, food crop farmers had to withdraw children from school and to let them work more...

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Egypt's Household Expenditure Pattern: Does It Alleviate a Food Crisis?

Fabiosa, Jacinto F.; Soliman, Ibrahim - Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute … - 2008

-food categories. This is evident with the higher income elasticity of lower-income rural households compared to urban households for …

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Egypt's Household Expenditure Pattern: Does It Alleviate a Food Crisis?

Fabiosa, Jacinto F.; Soliman, Ibrahim - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), … - 2008

-food categories. This is evident with the higher income elasticity of lower-income rural households compared to urban households for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786283

Nutrient elasticities in meat demand: a case in Malaysia

Tey, (John) Yeong-Sheng; Shamsudin, Mad Nasir; Mohamed, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

One distinct change in Malaysian food consumption behavior is the preference for meat products over staple and grain foods intact with income growth. Having mentioned the changes in food consumption behaviors, indeed, there are changes in nutrient availability and intake as well. This study aims...

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Residential Demand for Electricity in Pakistan.

Nasir, Muhammad; Tariq, Muhammad Salman; Arif, Ankasha - In: The Pakistan Development Review 47 (2008) 4, pp. 457-467

that electricity demand is price inelastic in both short run and long run. Moreover, income elasticity is almost unitary in …

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UMA ANÁLISE DA ELASTICIDADE-RENDA DE PROTEÍNA ANIMAL NO BRASIL

Carvalho, Thiago Bernardino de; Zen, Sergio; Raimundo, … - Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural - SOBER - 2008

O Brasil possui um mercado interno potencial para o consumo de alimentos, principalmente para as proteínas animais. A carne, o leite e ovo já fazem parte da alimentação dos brasileiros e sua demanda está ligada a vários fatores, como preços, qualidade, aspectos nutricionais, preferência,...

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Food price inflation and schooling

Grimm, Michael - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2008

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Cointegration and the Demand for Energy in Fiji

Kumar, Saten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper applies alternative time series techniques such as General to Specific (GETS) and Johansen Maximum Likelihood (JML) to estimate the long run income and price elasticities of demand for energy for Fiji. We also test for the causal relationship between energy consumption, GDP and energy...

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Is the intertemporal income elasticity of the value of travel time unity?

Swärdh, Jan-Erik - Transportekonomi, Väg- och Transportforskninginstitut (VTI) - 2008

The purpose of this study is to estimate the intertemporal income elasticity of the value of travel time (VTT) and test … implies the opportunity to use a lagged net income variable on individual level to estimate the income elasticity in an … intertemporal way. The result does not support an intertemporal income elasticity of VTT that is different from one and this result …

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