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The Impacts of the Presence of Disabled Members on Intra‐household Allocation in Older Australian Households
Author(s) -
Gong Xiaodong,
Brown Laurie
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8462.12236
Subject(s) - recreation , clothing , consumption (sociology) , luxury goods , goods and services , business , consumer expenditure , economics , labour economics , public economics , marketing , geography , sociology , economy , political science , aggregate expenditure , social science , archaeology , law
In this article, we investigate the consumption patterns of older Australian households. Our special focus is on the impact of the presence of disabled household members on households’ allocation of their consumption expenditure. The results reveal that for older Australian households, recreation, clothing, and other goods and services are luxury goods, while food and housing are found to be necessities. We find that families with disabled members have to spend more on necessities at the expense of more luxury goods, such as recreation.