 Unpacking Household Engel CurvesPhilippe De Vreyer, Sylvie Lambert and Martin Ravallion PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) from HAL Abstract: Acknowledging that decision making does not happen at the household but at the individual level, can house- hold Engel curves be safely estimated based solely on household-level data? Answering this question requires considering the intra-household Engel curves (IECs) and assessing how estimates of such IECs relate to standard household Engel curves estimates. Aggregating the IECs to the household level reveals confounding factors in standard household Engel curves, including intra-household inequality. A unique data set for Senegal is used to estimate IECs. Large discrepancies are found between the standard estimates of Engel curves and the con- sistently aggregated IECs. The main source of the discrepancy is a household fixed effect on intra-household spending behavior, which is only partially offset by differences in intra-household inequality. Results suggest that income elasticity of food consumption might be overestimated by as much as 43 percent by the standard household Engel curve estimation. Date: 2025 Published in World Bank Economic Review, inPress, ⟨10.1093/wber/lhaf031⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:pseptp:halshs-05366215 DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhaf031 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) from HAL |
Is your work missing from RePEc? Here is how to contribute.
Questions or problems? Check the EconPapers FAQ or send mail to .
EconPapers is hosted by the
School of Business at Örebro University.