Comparing Shapes of Engel Curves
- Autor
- Erschienen
- 2008-12-10
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2008-093
- Schlagwort(e)
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Consumption
Curve shape
Kernel method
Rank correlation
- Zusammenfsg.
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We measure how different the shapes of Engel curves are across 59 commodity groups. The same analysis is carried out for their derivatives and variances. While Engel curves possess a relatively homogeneous shape, significantly more heterogeneity is present in derivatives and when particular sub-classes of income are considered.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- economics
- JEL-Classification for JER
- D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
