on 387 calorie-income elasticities collected from 90 primary studies, our results identify that the threshold income for …

uses the recently released 2018 Family Income and Expenditure Survey and the Stone-Lewbel price index in the absence of … compared with that for other food groups. The income elasticity for rice is inelastic (0.26), slightly higher than the income … elasticity for sugar. Demand for rice is generally less elastic for higher-income Filipinos and families residing in urban areas …

This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand … synthesize research results on price and income elasticities of residentialwater demand report in the literature. These … empirical estimates of the price and income elasticity ofresidential water demand vary to such considerable extents. The set of …

Literature on residential water demand is rich, however, there are few estimates of price and income elasticities for …, our estimates of price and income elasticity indicate low responsiveness of households. The estimate of income elasticity … is about +0.16 and robust across all model specifications, and the effect of income is decreasing with household wealth …

This paper proposes a simple non-parametric framework to calculate income elasticities from a data set of observed …). The framework is used to calculate income elasticities for food and non-alcoholic drinks from a rich panel of household …

This paper examines the extent to which consumption in Russian households responds to exogenous income shocks. During … income. Using representative panel data on urban households from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, I find that a … household which experiences an exogenous shock of 10% of its total income changes both its food and total non …

In standard trade theory, consumption is normally assumed to be homothetic. Consequently, income and its distribution …

We propose a novel approach to estimate household income uncertainty at various future horizons, and characterize how … the estimated uncertainty evolves over the life cycle. We measure income uncertainty as the variance of linear forecast … errors conditional on information available to households prior to observing the realized income. This is a semiparametric …

income than to rises of the same size. Household balance sheet characteristics (including the presence of a savings buffer …), concerns about credit market access and higher subjective risk of lower future income account for a sizable share of this …

This chapter reviews empirical estimates of differential income and consumption growth across individuals during … recessions. Most existing studies examine the variation in income and consumption growth across individuals by sorting on ex ante … or contemporaneous income or consumption levels. We build on this literature by showing that differential shocks to …