The paper deals with the dependence of the share of households’ food expenditure on the total expenditure and the household’s size. This problem is important in applied welfare economics. According to the Engel’s law, the poorer household, the greater proportion of its total expenditure is devoted to the food consumption. In the study, the Working-Leser model was applied to Polish households microeconomic data from 2000, 2005 and 2009.
Details
Title
Quantitative analysis of the household’s expenditure for food
Record Identifier
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/195656
PURL Identifier
http://purl.umn.edu/195656
Published in
Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego
Volume
11
Issue
26
Page Range
23 - 30
Total Pages
8
Series Statement
Zeszyty Naukowe Szkoły Głównej Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego / Scientific Journal Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW Problems of World Agriculture