Recent approaches to estimating Engel curves

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 187-212

  Engel, Joachim ^a   Kneip, Alois ^b  

^a Ludwigsburg University of Education   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cross section Engel curves; Demand analysis; Nonparametric curve estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042870626     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01258672     Document Type: Article

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