This study draws attention to empirical evidence for the United Kingdom and Canada rejecting the separability of household commodity demands from labor supply. As might be anticipated on the basis of these rejections, using Canadian data, we find clear patterns in the average expenditure shares...

Various large sample estimation techniques in a nonlinear regression model are presented. These estimators are based around preliminary tests of significance, and the James–Stein rule. The properties of these estimators are studied when estimating regression coefficients in the multiple...