Socioeconomic Determinants of Consumption in Costa Rica's Highest Income Strata

 

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Forfatter: Hernández Chanto, Allan
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2007
Beskrivelse:Economic literature about income and consumption determinants has been positively oriented to poverty measurement, hence there had been few attempts to analyze the capabilities and potentialities of wealthiest people. From data collected by the National Bureau of Statistics and Census of Costa Rica in the Income and Expenditure Survey 2004, we make an ordered logit regression analysis of consumption on different socioeconomic variables. The main outcomes show that, perhaps education is a good factor to avoid the poorest classes of the consumption distribution, it does not guarantee a place in the wealthiest ones; that wealth is highly concentrated in the urban zone of Central Region, and that income of wealthiest families strongly depends on a rent component.
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Sprog:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/9438
Online adgang:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/reconomicas/article/view/9438
Palabra clave:Determinantes del consumo
Consumo equivalente
Modelo logit ordenado
Efectos marginales
Perfiles hipotéticos
Consumption determinants
Equivalent consumption
Ordered logit model
Marginal effects
Hypothetical profiles