Previous literature on the exchange rate and household consumption failed to examine effect of positive negative changes in expenditures. We extended available by investigating asymmetric impacts African emerging economies (AEE). To attain this aim, we utilized nonlinear ARDL model, which covers both shocks rate. Our results indicate that movements have all included economies, excluding Nigeria...

We study how the level and composition of household expenditures changes over the business cycle for households at different positions in the income distribution. Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, we find that transitory, state-specific increases in unemployment causes lower income groups to lower their total expenditure outlays, contrary to the prediction of the textbook account...

This paper deals with the measurement of per capita household consumption expenditures when the household's underlying demographic structure changes during the survey period. To do this, we provide a formal definition of precisely what it means to mis-measure the household's demographic structure. We then use assumptions on demographic processes within the household during the survey period to ...

We estimate the impact of food transfers on diet and consumption expenditures in food insecure households with HIV positive members on antiretroviral therapy. We use primary data collected from 199 beneficiary and 179 non-beneficiary households in Lusaka, Zambia. Propensity score matching estimates show that the food transfers significantly increase dietary diversity and food consumption expend...

Objectives: This article deals with the comparison of excise tax revenues from alcoholic beverages and tobacco products public spending that are spent on treating diseases occurring in consumers these commodities. Methods: Based available data, study estimates direct expenditures treatment tobacco-related very frequent alcohol consumption-related Czech Republic. These partial results evaluated ...

The use of asset indices in welfare analysis and poverty targeting is increasing, especially in cases in which data on expenditures are unavailable or hard to collect. We compare alternative approaches to welfare measurement. Our analysis shows that inferences about inequalities in education, health care use, fertility, and child mortality, as well as labor market outcomes, are quite robust to ...

This study examines the changing patterns of consumption of an aging Mexican society with a focus on the age of the householder. To gain insight into aging consumer behavior, relevant consumption theories were reviewed. Regression analysis using various consumption categories as dependent variables were used to test the hypothesis that age of the householder influences consumer expenditure. The...

This paper examines the determinants of household alcohol expenditures by using a nonnormal and heteroscedastic double-hurdle model to accommodate zero observations in the sample. The model is a generalization of the double-hurdle model estimated in previous studies of alcohol consumption. We also examine the effects of explanatory variables by calculating and decomposing the elasticities. Find...