This paper attempts to capture the non-linearity of income responses of fairly disaggregated item groups with the help of a quadratic system of demand equations, introduced herein. Empirical performances of the quadratic system and some other models have been examined using Indian consumer...

This paper examines the impact of various socio-economic factors on consumption in rural West Bengal, an eastern state of India, using a regression-based technique reformulated in a spatial framework. The difference of incidences of poverty (head count ratios) in two parts (North and South) of...

This paper provides evidence in favour of greater generality in the demographic demand literature. We propose two demographic demand procedures. One extends the German model by allowing non-additive interaction between 'overheads' and 'Barten scaling.' The other extends 'Price Scaling,' by...