This paper discusses, estimates and formally compares the best known procedures for
incorporating demographic variables into complete demand systems. In particular, a class of …

Empirical investigations into the expenditure and time allocation decisions of households
usually allow the variation in demographic characteristics across households, in particular …

The practical importance of computing general equivalence scales emerges in inter-
household welfare comparisons (eg, issues of poverty assessment, income maintenance …

This article presents a household demand model for Italy estimated with data from ISTAT's
family budgets surveys for the period 1985-93, Heterogeneous preferences are modeled …

THIS PAPER DEALS WITH TWO ISSUES in empirical demand analysis: the treatment of
demographic effects and the choice among functional forms. In &ection 1 we discuss two …

Summary Deaton and Muellbauer'sAlmost Ideal Demand System'is employed to model the
joint determination of family income and male and female labor supply of individual …

In this paper we explore two issues in empirical demand analysis--the estimation of
complete systems of demand equations using household budget data (Section I), and the …

DEMPATEM working papers are published on behalf of the DEMPATEM research project by
the project coordinators, Wiemer Salverda and Ronald Schettkat. The DEMPATEM working …

This paper introduces budget share demographic translation in the Almost Ideal Demand
System (AIDS) and explores its implications for aggregation over consuming units. It os …

Household composition can be expected to affect the allocation of household expenditure
among goods, at the very least because of economies of scale as household size increases …