This paper uses a general method of moment regression technique to estimate an energy demand function with a dataset covering 71 countries between 1965 and 2010. The estimated results show that countries undergoing rapid economic growth may show relatively higher income and price elasticities in the long run. The higher income elasticities and lower price elasticity in the short run of rapid gr...

This paper examines the smoking behavior in China using the urban data set from the 1995 Chinese Household Income Study. We investigate the two parts of elasticity through employing two main models. We find the estimate of overall cigarette price elasticity is –0.654 by combining the estimates of participation elasticity and conditional elasticity. The result implies that people still care abou...

Analysing a large sample of 1980–2004 unbalanced panel data, the current study presents comparative global evidence on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising inequality to increase poverty. Based on ...

Following in Your Father’s Footsteps: A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and their Sons We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved endowments at the twin-pair ...

We provide empirical evidence that increases in housing rental income lead to a larger supply response than price of the same percentage value. rationalize this differential responsiveness with an amplification mechanism arising from downward revision capitalization rates following increase. document elasticity is less pronounced geographically constrained and tightly regulated neighborhoods ar...

Objectives. The study seeks to provide comparative global evidence on the role of income inequality, relative to income growth, in poverty reduction.Methods. An analysis-of-covariance model is estimated using a large global sample of 1980–2004 unbalanced panel data, with the headcount measure of poverty as the dependent variable, and the Gini coefficient and PPP-adjusted mean income as explanat...

In this paper, the equivalence scale elasticity will be estimated by using individual panel data on income satisfaction from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP). Satisfaction or happiness data have been more frequently used by economists in recent years to analyze individual well-being. The approach differs from other subjective approaches as respondents are requested to evaluate curr...

over the past decade, the issue of rural women in developing countries has evolved from relative obscurity to a primary concern among the growing community of researchers and policy makers who are interested in women's socioeconomic status. socioeconomic status (ses) is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual's or fam...

inrtoduction developing countries and newly industrialized countries face the twin challenges of protecting the environment while also strengthening their economies. over the past few decades, the intensified process of urbanization and industrialization undertaken by these countries, coupled with rapid population growth, has resulted in the degradation of the environmental quality. particularl...

There are many projections for China’s food demand, and the projection results differ significantly from each other. Different values for income elasticities could be a major reason. This study projects meat and cereals demand for China based on a meta-analysis of the income elasticity estimates using a collection of 143 and 240 income elasticity estimates for cereals and meat products, respect...