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CONDITIONAL DEMAND FUNCTIONS, SEPARABILITY, AND THE LENGTH OF RUN: SOME NOTES FOR THE APPLIED RESEARCHER OF HOUSEHOLD BEHAVIOUR 1
Author(s) -
BRYANT W. KEITH
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of consumer studies and home economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.775
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1470-6431
pISSN - 0309-3891
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-6431.1983.tb00623.x
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , economics , econometrics , empirical research , work (physics) , consumer demand , microeconomics , sociology , statistics , mathematics , social science , engineering , mechanical engineering
This paper introduces the concepts of conditional demand functions, the length of run, and separability to consumer and family economists as useful tools for empirical research on household behaviour. The relationships among demand, expenditure, and consumption functions are sketched. Then conditional demand functions are explained, their uses in empirical work addressed, and several applications discussed. The concepts of the length of run and of separability are explained in terms of conditional demand and their implications for and applications to empirical research on household behaviour treated.