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Les enfants en tant que consommateurs: étude des dépenses à partir des journaux des enfants.
Author(s) -
Farrell Lisa,
Shields Michael A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.00416.x
Subject(s) - commodity , consumer expenditure survey , clothing , economics , child obesity , consumer expenditure , child care , demographic economics , psychology , public economics , childhood obesity , medicine , aggregate expenditure , geography , obesity , pediatrics , finance , archaeology , overweight
. We investigate expenditure behaviour of school‐aged children using child diary information contained in the British Family Expenditure Survey. The estimates from an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) for child expenditure suggest that drinks, sweets, books, and toys are ‘normal’ goods for children, but clothes, travel, leisure and vice products are ‘luxury’ items with income elasticities greater than one. Being a lone‐parent child and having a working mother are important factors in determining child expenditure decisions. Importantly, a higher parental budget share on any given commodity is typically associated with an increased child budget share on the same commodity.