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Domestic technology, consumption economies of scale and poverty: evidence from Sri Lanka
- Source :
- Applied Economics. 50:1777-1789
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- While it is well known that new technologies enhance consumer welfare, the manner in which these technologies impact the ability to realize economies of scale in consumption is not well understood. We use Sri Lankan household data to examine how the adoption of new technologies by households positively impacts their ability to achieve household economies of scale. This suggests that new technologies not only deliver a greater variety of consumption goods to consumers, but they may also play an important role in enabling large households to escape poverty by lowering the per-capita costs of maintaining a given standard of living. Given the importance of consumption economies of scale in the measurement of poverty, this study provides some insights on the extent to which the number of poor households changes when food consumption scale economies due to technology adoption in the domestic sphere are incorporated.
- Subjects :
- Consumption (economics)
Economics and Econometrics
Poverty
Economies of agglomeration
Emerging technologies
Applied economics
020209 energy
05 social sciences
Domestic technology
02 engineering and technology
Standard of living
Economies of scale
0502 economics and business
Development economics
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Economics
InformationSystems_MISCELLANEOUS
050207 economics
Economic system
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14664283 and 00036846
- Volume :
- 50
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Economics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........37d8ccb168d19ab39cbb9bcfdbc61d03