著者

草苅 仁

出版者

日本農業経済学会

雑誌

農業経済研究 (ISSN:03873234)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.87, no.2, pp.174-177, 2015

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<p>The objective of this paper is to attract attention to the violation of Engel's law in recent household consumption in Japan. In this paper, the Working-Leser type Engel function was etimated by using the age group of household head micro data. Although the empirical study suggests a violation of Engel's law mainly from the downward bias caused by the omission of imputed rent, the violation was still observed in the estimation with the corrected data.</p>