Equivalence scales, the cost of children and household consumption patterns in Italy

Abstract

Equivalence scales, Demand analysis, Censoring, D11, D12,

Is the environment a luxury? An empirical investigation using revealed preferences and household production

“…As to the budget shares, Food, Housing, Transports and Clothing are the consumption categories on which the largest part of the monthly expenditure is allocated. This is in line with similar works on Italian household consumption (Moschini and Rizzi, 1997;Balli and Tiezzi, 2009). All the compensated own price elasticities, calculated at the sample means of variables, have the correct sign and are statistically significant.…”

“…When q m i , the marshallian demand of good i, varies, total virtual expenditure e v varies as well, this is why the derivative of q m i wrt income is multiplied by the ratio between e v and q m i 4. The case of more than one public good is more complex and the corresponding measures of benefits incidence are derived byFlores and Carson (1997) andEbert (2003).…”

Assessing differences in household needs: a comparison of approaches for the estimation of equivalence scales using German expenditure data

“…While the QAI demand system has not been estimated with German data before, estimates for other countries are available (see Table 8). Our results fall somewhere in the middle; the estimates reported by Michelini (2001) are generally higher, while Balli and Tiezzi (2010) and Blacklow et al (2010) reported lower estimates. Like the estimates provided by Balli and Tiezzi (2010), our results violate the plausibility criterion stating that the increase of scale values with household size should become smaller with increasing household size.…”

“…Our results fall somewhere in the middle; the estimates reported by Michelini (2001) are generally higher, while Balli and Tiezzi (2010) and Blacklow et al (2010) reported lower estimates. Like the estimates provided by Balli and Tiezzi (2010), our results violate the plausibility criterion stating that the increase of scale values with household size should become smaller with increasing household size. However, for our estimates as well as for the estimates of Balli and Tiezzi (2010), this violation occurs for households with several children, for which there might be exceptions to this criterion, as we argued in Sect.…”

Regional Differences in Equivalence Scales in Turkey

“…In the literature, there are many studies on the classification and construction of equivalence scales. Among others, Buhmann et al [1] and Hagenaars et al [2], Engel [3], Barten [4], Gorman [5], Pollak and Wales [6], Lewbel [7], Deaton and Muellbauer [8] Ray [9], Charlier [10] Pendakur [11], Kot [12] Lundgren [13], Dudek [14], Muellbauer and Van de Ven [15], Balli and Tiezzi [16], Majumder and Chakrabarty [17], Rojas [18] are some of the prominent studies in literature.…”