Population age structure and consumption expenditure composition: evidence from European countries

Addessi, William

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Population age structure and consumption expenditure composition: evidence from European countries

journal contribution

posted on 2018-04-16, 15:09 authored by William Addessi

This paper aims at evaluating the effect of population age structure on households’ aggregate preferences and, through this channel, on the sectoral composition of the final consumption expenditure. The analysis of European COICOP 2-digit data shows that the contribution of demographic dynamics to model fit is highly relevant, only slightly lower than the contribution of the income effect

History

Publication

Economics Letters;168, pp. 18-20

Publisher

Elsevier

Note

peer-reviewed

Rights

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Economics Letters. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Economics Letters, 2018, 168, pp. 18-20, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.03.033