Background and Objectives: In May 2003, the government of British Columbia adopted income-based pharmacare, replacing an age-based program. Stated policy goals included the reduction and reallocation of government spending. It was also hoped that income-based deductibles would increase consumer price sensitivity in decision-making. This analysis measured policy impacts on private and public exp...

The U. S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) uses a multistage sample design which is revised approximately every ten years. The first stage consists of selecting primary sampling units (PSUs). The selected PSUs are also used in the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and the Consumer Point of Purchase Survey (CPOPS). This paper describes the recently completed PSU selection process for the 1998 CPI Revis...

the main purpose of this study is to determine welfare impacts of trade liberalization on maize market. for this purpose, we used from time series data for the period 1961/2009 and estimated domestic supply, domestic demand and import demand for maize. results of estimation showed that price elasticity of supply and demand is 0.32 and -0.25, respectively. then, by means of these elasticities, w...

Stability of U.S. Consumption Expenditure Patterns: 1996 1999 Lester D. Taylor University of Arizona* A cornerstone of macroeconomic analysis since publication of Keynes’s General Theory in 1936 has been a strong belief in a stable aggregate consumption function. At a micro level, there has been an equally strong belief in invariant individual tastes and preferences. The usual approach in testi...