Zhang, Ping; Soest, Arthur van; Gong, Xiaodong - In: Journal of Applied Econometrics 20 (2005) 4, pp. 509-527
We analyse expenditure patterns for rural China, focusing on differences between families with boys and girls. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families from 19 Chinese provinces. Following the existing literature, we estimate Engel curves for food and for alcohol, a typical adult...