The estimation of a rank 3 demand system with demographic demand shifters from quasi-unit record data of household consumption

Economics Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-24

  Michelini, Claudio ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

C31; D12; Equivalence scales; PIGLOG demand systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041597014     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(99)00127-5     Document Type: Article

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