Income elasticities of expenditure for food. (Consumer Expenditure Survey Conference paper summaries)

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: August 1, 1988| Author: Gieseman, Raymond; Moulton, Brent | Copyright information

Raymond Gieseman and Brent Moulton, "Income elas

ticities of expenditure for food," published in 1987 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business and Economics Section.

Based on data from the 1985 Consumer Expenditure Survey, estimates of the income elasticities of expenditure for the several food groups included in the study are shown in the paper. These income elasticities of expenditure, evaluated at mean after-tax income levels, were ...

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