This paper explores how the household's capacity to grow food impacts their ability to
achieve economies of scale in food consumption and how this impacts the geographic …

Alternative versions of a preference-consistent rank 3 complete demand system have been
estimated from quasi-unit record budget data of New Zealand households of different …

Raising a child is simply not a" labour of love". Time, energy and money are also all required
so that children are able to enjoy a sufficiently comfortable lifestyle. This article thus focuses …

The authors would like to thank Kyle Mitchell for the continuing assistance he provided
during the course of the study and whose insightful comments made a significant …

In the previous chapter, the importance of incorporating economies of scale in consumption
when measuring poverty was discussed. Furthermore, a number of knowledge gaps relating …

Measuring the costs of children is of immense practical importance in a range of economic
and social policy areas. In this paper, we introduce a new econometric procedure that …

In the study of material well-being, it is common that income is used as a measure to capture
the economic resources available at people's disposal to satisfy their needs and wants. It is …

This paper uses quasi‐unit record data on expenditures and incomes of New Zealand
households of different demographic profiles to estimate consumption equivalence scales …

The goal of any development policy is to increase the living standard of the people in the
society. In any developing country, the efficiency of such policy depends on how families …

The goal of any development policy is to increase the living standard of the people in the
society. In any developing country, the efficiency of such policy depends on how families …