Retrospectives: Engel Curves
Retrospectives: Engel Curves
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Nashville: American Economic Association
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English
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Nashville: American Economic Association
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Engel curves describe how household expenditure on particular goods or services depends on household income. German statistician Ernst Engel (1821–1896) was the first to investigate this relationship systematically in an article published about 150 years ago. The best-known single result from the article is “Engel's law,” which states that the poor...
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Retrospectives: Engel Curves
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_753826581
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_753826581
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0895-3309
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1944-7965
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10.1257/jep.24.1.225
