Microeconomics
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Author: KARLAN, Dean S., Morduch, Jonathan
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Chapter 4, Problem 13RQ
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The commodity that has positive income elastic of demand and compute the effect of increasing income.
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Nadia consumes two goods, food and clothing. The price of food is $2,the price of clothing is $5,and her income is $1,000. Nadia always spends 40 percent of her income on food regardless of the price of food, the price of clothing, or her income.What is her price elasticity of demand for food?
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