This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper nonparametric Kernel smoothing technique is used to determine the functional form of the engel curves of some selected ...

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 81, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1973), pp. 655-677 (23 pages) When a new durable is introduced, the fraction of owners in the population increases. A growth curve is observed ...

Abstract: Understanding how marginal utilities of expenditure evolve over time is key to the specification, the estimation, and the testing of dynamic consumer behavior. But in existing dynamic models ...

This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households in 1993–2005. Our estimates, based on Engel curves for food consumption, indicate ...