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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"budget shares"”.
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Consumer debt: Implications for consumption behavior of households in the United States
… pattern was defined as the relationship among budget shares allocated to fifteen consumption expenditure categories. Consumer debt load was grouped into three range, zero, low and high. Ordinary least square regression analysis was used to test the relationships between consumer debt load and …
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The impact of livestock and gender on household expenditure patterns in the Copperbelt province of Zambia
… the study compares the changes in food budget shares for households that have income from livestock and households that did not have livestock income during the study period. Furthermore, the study examines whether the impact of livestock as an asset is different when women control the …
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Essays on the economics of tobacco and alcohol control policy in Kenya
… thesis uses the two most recent household and budget surveys (2005/6 and 2015/16), to examine some of the effects of the tobacco and alcohol control policies that were implemented in Kenya between 2005 and 2015. Chapter 2 considers the impact of consumption and taxation of tobacco and alcohol …
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U.S. aggregate demand for clothing and shoes, 1929-1994: Effects of changes in price, nondurables expenditures, and demographics
… data sets (1929-1994), and a second-stage budgeting model was developed and estimated. The basis for the demand model was the Almost Ideal Demand System model, which was modified to account for the demographic effects. Demographic variables included in the final model were age distribution …
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Househood demand for comodities in Zambia: an Emperical assessment in context of food insecurity
… households since the two commodities have high budget shares and low own price elasticities of demand.
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A Transportation Planning Model for State Highway Management: A Decision Support System Methodology to Achieve Sustainable Development
… strategy for calculating efficient budget shares by hierarchical levels of highway conditions. In this strategy, the proportions of the highway budget allocated to each level of management activity are determined by the physical conditions of the highways. Highways in the worst …
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Economic and health implications of tobacco and alcohol use in South Africa: a household expenditure analysis
… simple comparison of differences in expenditure shares between households that spent money on tobacco and those that did not. Next, the displacement of household expenditures is estimated using instrumental variables within a system-of-equations. Confidence intervals for the point estimates are …
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Essays on Development Economics: Families, Child Human Capital, and Migration
… with respect to two sets of outcomes: household budget shares and child human capital indicators. The results suggest that the combination of looking at different degrees of spatial dispersion within families and different dimensions of family behavior is crucial to a precise understanding of …
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ANALYZING THE UNITED STATES IMPORTS OF ORGANIC AND NON-ORGANIC COFFEE AND TEA
… Main objective was to estimate import budget shares economic systems of organic and non-organic coffee and tea to get elasticities. This helps to come up with main results for the trend and characteristics of consuming these commodities. Monthly data on the US imports quantities and …
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Impacts of Household Credit on the Poor in Peri-urban Areas of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
… finds heterogeneity in the impacts on household budget shares for education and healthcare. Finally, household credit for the poor was examined and found to have a positive influence on current expenditure on education. However, to test whether the credit to the poor has longer term effects on …