Households' Expenditure Patterns in Belarus

Aleksandr Vashchilko

No 20, BEROC Working Paper Series from Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC)

Abstract: This study estimates the equivalence scale for Belarus, while directly accounting for household size economies of scale. For this purposes, the modication of methodology in Lancaster and Ray (1998) was used. The poverty levels for vulnerable social groups are estimated using the house holds equivalized total expenditures. In addition, the comparison of Engel curves for several expenditure categories is conducted for different years

Keywords: equivalence scale; Engel curves (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2012-12
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