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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Consumer Expenditure Survey"”.
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An Exploratory Study of Household Alcohol Consumption from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey with a Focus on Market Conditions and Regulatory Structures
<p>Alcohol consumption and use is not just a harmful behavior or a potential recreational activity, but it also may form a way of self-identification.</p> <p>Each type of beverage apparently has their own profile of dedicated drinkers. Those drinkers are also apparently loyal to the location of …
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Expenditure Behavior of Female-Headed and Two-Parent Families
… and two-parent families change their expenditure behavior with changes in income, to compare such changes, and to investigate reasons for any differences. Data are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 1972-73 Consumer Expenditure Survey. The two samples consist of 590 female-headed and …
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The effects of wife's employment on family expenditure: Gross effects, work-related effects, and net income effects
… the effects of wife's employment on family expenditure. Three effects of wife's employment were considered separately: gross effects, work-related effects, and net income effects. The sample consisted of 796 families from the 1987 Consumer Expenditure Survey. Multiple regression analysis was …
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Expenditure patterns of older and younger consumers
… differences exist in patterns of consumption expenditures between elderly and younger consumers in the United States. Cluster analysis was used to identify consumption patterns, and then multiple logit analysis was used to test the relationship between consumption patterns and socio-economic …
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Market substitutes for housework: Variations in use
… of mother's marital and employment status on expenditures for time-saving durables and services. The theoretical framework of this study was derived from the household production model. Data were taken from the 1988-89 Consumer Expenditure Survey. The sample consisted of 2,126 families with …
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Consumer debt: Implications for consumption behavior of households in the United States
… specifically, it was to examine whether consumer debt load is related to total consumption expenditure and to consumption expenditure pattern. The data were taken from the 1988 Consumer Expenditure Survey. The sample consisted of 1,649 households. Total consumption expenditure was defined …
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Short run price elasticity of residential electricity demand within income levels and the implications for CO2 policy
… Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Consumer Expenditure survey. The price elasticity of electricity demand is determined using generalized least squares regression analysis. Unlike other studies, the price of electricity is found to be insignificant in determining the demand of …
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Essays on taxation: positive and normative aspects
… education expense. Using the 1989 and 1992 Survey of Consumer Finance data sets, a difference-in-difference methodology is used to measure how household savings has changed over time for households with college-bound children as opposed to those without. Households without college-bound …
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Role of Public Procurement in Improving the Consumption of Millets
… time ensuring subsidized food access for poor consumers through the Public Distribution System (PDS). One of India's major food-based schemes is Public Distribution System costing between 14- 20 billion USD. It is also one of the largest social security programs in the world, that procures and …
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The impact of married women's employment on household expenditures for clothing
… employment status and occupation on household expenditures for clothing, when controlling for income and various sociodemographic variables. The sample consisted of 2,285 households selected from the public use tapes of the Quarterly Interview component of the 1980-81 Consumer Expenditure …
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Patterns of Parental Spending: Do Parents Spend More Money on Sons or Daughters?
… to daughters. Using secondary data from the "Consumer Expenditure Survey: Diary Survey" dataset from 2008 through 2010, this study tests the hypothesis that parents with adolescent girls spend more money on apparel, beauty and hygiene products, health care, and education compared to parents …
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The Effect of Current and Perceived Economic Conditions on Consumer Apparel Purchase Expenditures
Consumer spending accounts for over sixty-five percent of the Gross Domestic Product in the United States, greatly affecting the economy, as well as the retail sector. The consumer, rather than business or government, has become the dominant factor in shaping the course of the aggregate U.S. …
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Estimating the number of cars in UK and US households
… based on rich data sets of British Household Survey and US Consumer Expenditure Survey found not only the conventional explanatory variables to be significantly linked to the number of cars in the US and UK households, but also the rarely-investigated psychological variables were found to be …
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Essays In Health Economics
… I use the matched data set constructed from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the Survey of Consumer Finances for period 1989-2010 to investigate the impacts of housing and financial wealth on healthcare spending. The results indicate significant housing and financial wealth effects and …
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Household economies of scale, food consumption and intra-household allocation of time
… of food declines with household size in the consumer expenditure survey data contradicting the Barten model prediction that per capita food consumption should increase with household size. I test the Barten model in the expenditure data from the U.S., South Africa and Russia, and show that …
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Three Essays on the Well-Being of Vulnerable Populations
… sample of Blacks from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979). The study finds no initial advantage to HBCU attendance for black men, but a 1.4 to 1.6 percentage point higher growth rate in subsequent wages is associated with the attendance of an HBCU as opposed to other four year …
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Determinants of E-Commerce Demand, Travel Behavior, and Travel-Related Expenditures Among U.S. Households
… investigates how rapid growth in e-commerce and consumer travel-related expenditure influences household travel demand, their mode choice, and transportation spending behavior in the United States. The time frame of the dataset focuses on the post-COVID-19 era. It uses the data from the 2022 U.S. …
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Race and Consumption: Consumer Markets and the Production of Racial Inequality
… this question by examining racial inequality in consumer market outcomes. Over the past thirty years, economic sociologists have argued that economic markets are complex social institutions that contribute to the production of social inequality. This insight, however, has been relatively confined …
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The Heterogeneity of Consumer Behavior: Analyzing Entertainment Expenditures in Relation to Lifecycles, Business Cycles and Demographic Influences
… beyond traditional assumptions of homogeneous consumer behavior to investigate the diverse factors that shape consumer choices. The dissertation specifically focuses on entertainment expenditures, a significant, but often underemphasized, component of household spending to demonstrate how …