Search Results - subject:"Income elasticity"

L’élasticité calorie-revenu est-elle faible au Niger ?

Tankari, Mahamadou R - In: Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - … 95 (2014) 4, pp. 473-491

[Paper in French] By focusing on the relationship between on one hand caloric consumption and on the other hand income and access to sources of supply of households, this work explores the role of growth or income transfer policies on food security in Niger. Two important results emerge from the...

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Limited Income Mobility in Korea

Oh, Hyungna; Choi, Yun Jeong - Economic Research Institute, College of Business and … - 2014

Using the Korea Labor and Income Panel Study from 1998 to 2010, we measure income mobility and determinants of income ranks and mobility. Empirical outcomes reveal that income mobility is quite limited for both the poorest and the richest income group households. Moreover, a macro economic shock...

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THE INCOME ELASTICITY OF AIR TRAVEL: A META-ANALYSIS

Gallet, Craig A.; Doucouliagos, Hristos - Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law, School … - 2014

There is much disparity in estimates of the income elasticity of air travel across the literature. We examine this … our preferred baseline income elasticity estimate of 1.186 is consistent with air travel being a luxury and a slightly … immature market, there are several features of the literature which sway the income elasticity away from this baseline. For …

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Publication selection and the income elasticity of the value of a statistical life

Doucouliagos, Hristos; Stanley, T.D.; Viscusi, W. Kip - In: Journal of Health Economics 33 (2014) C, pp. 67-75

. Transferring these valuations to other populations often utilizes the income elasticity of the VSL, which typically draw on … estimates from meta-analyses. Using a data set consisting of 101 estimates of the income elasticity of VSL from 14 previously … reported meta-analyses, we find that after accounting for potential publication bias the income elasticity of value of a …

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Inter-temporal variation in the travel time and travel cost parameters of transport models

Börjesson, Maria - In: Transportation 41 (2014) 2, pp. 377-396

forecasted income increase among travellers and the relevant income elasticity of the cost parameter. Evidence from this study …

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Secular trends in tobacco consumption: the case of Italy, 1871-2010

Ciccarelli, Carlo; Pierani, Pierpaolo; Tiezzi, Silvia - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2014

This paper presents the first ever statistical reconstruction of annual tobacco consumption in Italy from 1871 to 2010. The time series of total tobacco is disaggregated into its four major components (cigars, cigarettes, cut tobacco, and snuff), both in physical and monetary term. Our task was...

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Japanese Money Demand from the Regional Data: An Update and Some Additional Results

Fujiki, Hiroshi - In: Monetary and Economic Studies 32 (2014) November, pp. 45-102

We cross-sectionally estimate the income elasticity of money demand using Japanese prefectural deposit statistics and …

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Does the income elasticity of road traffic depend on the source of income?

Le Vine, Scott; Chen, Bingqing; Polak, John - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 67 (2014) C, pp. 15-29

An extensive body of literature addresses the income elasticity of road traffic, in which income is typically treated …

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Modeling gasoline demand in the United States: A flexible semiparametric approach

Liu, Weiwei - In: Energy Economics 45 (2014) C, pp. 244-253

. The existing literature may not appropriately evaluate the price elasticity and income elasticity of gasoline demand. Most …

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How Do Residents Respond to Price under Increasing Block Tariffs? Evidence from Experiments in Urban Residential Water Demand in Beijing

Ma, Xunzhou; Zhang, Shiqiu; Mu, Quan - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 14, pp. 4895-4909

Economic theory generally assumes that consumers respond to marginal price, which is the price of the last unit of goods consumed, when making economic decisions. However, this assumption may not hold for goods with multi-block rate schedules. This paper explores the effects of water price...

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