What Is an Engel Curve? An Engel Curve is a graphic representation of Engel's Law, showing the relationship between household income and spending on a particular good or service.5 What Is Engel's Coefficient? The Engel coefficient, based on Engel's Law, is a commonly used measure of a na...
The main objective of this paper is to understand such paradoxical relationship between food consumption and household size. Our nonparametric empirical evidence, drawn from the Colombian 1985 urban survey, shows that the food share is negatively related to total household per capita expenditure in ...