Variation in Engel's law across quantiles in Taiwan: toward an alternative concept of near poverty line
學年 104
學期 1
出版（發表）日期 2016-01-31
作品名稱 Variation in Engel's law across quantiles in Taiwan: toward an alternative concept of near poverty line
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著者 Chang, Meng-Shiuh; Hu, Teng-Yuan; Lin, Ching-Yuan
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著錄名稱、卷期、頁數 Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 21(1), pp.103-115
摘要 In many countries, the definition of near poverty line is the given amount that is slightly above the poverty line, but the precise economic and statistical basis is unknown. In order to find a natural candidate of near poverty line, this paper employs robust quantile regression on a quadratic parametric model of Engel's law to investigate changes in curvature, signifying changes in taste or liquidity constraint, across food share quantiles. By analyzing thirty waves of the Survey of Family Income and Expenditure in Taiwan (1980–2009), it finds that the curvature systematically follows the ‘bifocal’ variation, indicating a perceptible break in consumption behavior. The threshold separating the two food consumption patterns provides a natural candidate of near poverty line of Taiwan.
關鍵字 food consumption pattern;Engel's law;near poverty line;quantile regression;D12;I32
語言 en
ISSN 1354-7860; 1469-9648
期刊性質 國外
收錄於 SSCI EconLit ABS*
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通訊作者 Teng-Yuan Hu (胡登淵)
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國別 GBR
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