This study introduces dynamic features into the random-utility-based multiregional input-output (RUBMRIO) model. The RUBMRIO model predicts interzonal trade and travel patterns, as well as business and household location choices, using consumption and production process data. It equilibrates production and trade, labor markets and transportation networks simultaneously. Multinomial logit models...

How to release rural consumption potential is currently of great significance for the sustainable economic growth developing world. Using representative survey data from China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), this paper studied impacts mobile payments on household and its mechanisms. This study constructed instrumental variables perspective induced demand overcome endogeneity problem found that...

This paper deals with the measurement of per capita household consumption expenditures when the household's underlying demographic structure changes during the survey period. To do this, we provide a formal definition of precisely what it means to mis-measure the household's demographic structure. We then use assumptions on demographic processes within the household during the survey period to ...

Using data on individual consumption expenditures from a sample of farm households in the Philippines, we construct a direct test of the unitary household model. We are able to contrast the efficient outcomes predicted by the unitary household model with the constrained efficient outcomes we might expect if there was a hidden action problem within the household; in the latter case, household me...

In European cities, the rate of population growth has declined significantly, while the number of households has increased. This increase in the number of households is associated with an increase in space for housing. To date, the effects of both a declining population and decreasing household numbers remain unclear. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between population and household n...

Food consumption patterns are undergoing substantial change in many countries as economic development proceeds. The trend is a move away from traditional cereals towards higher-value and higher-protein foods. Explaining such changes only in terms of traditional economic variables can lead to biased estimates of income e¡ects and perhaps biased projections of food demand. Household survey data f...

BACKGROUND The main goal of this study is to examine the associations between illness conditions and out-of-pocket medical expenditure with other types of household consumptions. In November and December of 2011, a survey was conducted in three cities in western China, namely Lan Zhou, Gui Lin and Xi An, and their surrounding rural areas. RESULTS Information on demographics, income and consum...

This paper examines the influence of household membership and area of residence on individual drinking behaviour using a multilevel modelling approach. The effects are investigated using data from the Health Survey for England (HSE) in which multiple interviews were conducted in the same household. With the use of postal address, the data were organised into a hierarchical structure of individu...

Increasing consumption of electricity due to a growing number of information and communication technology (ICT) appliances in households is a major challenge to reducing energy consumption. Several studies have predicted escalating ICT-related energy consumption, but relatively little has been said and done about possible initiatives to curb this increase. This paper presents results of a resea...