TY - RPRT AB - In this paper we investigate the relationship between within-period preferences and the degree of intertemporal substitution. We first present a theoretical discussion which argues that the form of within-period preferences and the way these differ across consumers may have important consequences for the formulation and specification of intertemporal models. We then apply this methodology to a detailed study of disaggregate household expenditure patterns using a pooled cross-section of some 70,000 households across 15 years. Our objective is to assess the degree of intertemporal substitution across different household types avoiding aggregation bias and accounting for nonadditive within-period preferences and nonlinearity in Engel curves. AU - Blundell, Richard AU - Browning, Martin AU - Meghir, Costas DA - 1989-08-08 DA - 1989 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.268358 DO - doi ID - 268358 KW - Consumer/Household Economics KW - Demand and Price Analysis KW - Financial Economics L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/268358/files/twerp324.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/268358/files/twerp324.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/268358/files/twerp324.pdf LA - eng LA - English LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/268358/files/twerp324.pdf N2 - In this paper we investigate the relationship between within-period preferences and the degree of intertemporal substitution. We first present a theoretical discussion which argues that the form of within-period preferences and the way these differ across consumers may have important consequences for the formulation and specification of intertemporal models. We then apply this methodology to a detailed study of disaggregate household expenditure patterns using a pooled cross-section of some 70,000 households across 15 years. Our objective is to assess the degree of intertemporal substitution across different household types avoiding aggregation bias and accounting for nonadditive within-period preferences and nonlinearity in Engel curves. PY - 1989-08-08 PY - 1989 T1 - A Microeconometric Model of Intertemporal Substitution and Consumer Demand TI - A Microeconometric Model of Intertemporal Substitution and Consumer Demand UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/268358/files/twerp324.pdf Y1 - 1989-08-08 ER -