Horacio Soberon-Ferrer
University of Maryland, College Park
10 Papers
75 Citations
Horacio Soberon-Ferrer is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Socioeconomic status & Food away from home. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 10 publications.
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Papers
Analysis of leisure expenditures in the United States.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the determinants of leisure expenditures by households in the United States, focusing on three leisure categories: active leisure, passive leisure, and social entertainment.
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Determinants of Household Expenditures for Services
TL;DR: In this article, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Surveys were used to investigate factors influencing household expenditures for services in the United States, and they found significant differences between families with full-time and part-time working wives in expenditures on child care, food away from home, and total services.
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The effect of ethnicity on selected household expenditures
TL;DR: In this article, a subsample of expenditure data, collected from 3,481 households as part of the 1980-1981 Consumer Expenditure Survey, was used to analyze the effect of ethnicity on expenditures for clothing, food at home, and food away from home.
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An Empirical Analysis of Elderly Consumers' Complaining Behavior
TL;DR: This paper found that the elderly are less likely to report a dissatisfying experience, but those who do express dissatisfaction are likely to take actions just like young consumers, and age differences were found in the likelihood of having a unsatisfactory experience, the demand for complaint actions, and the effects of determinants on complaint behavior.
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Consumer Preferences for Japanese Automobiles
TL;DR: Carroll et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship of automobile attributes and household characteristics to consumer preferences for Japanese cars in 1986 and found that households do not buy Japanese cars because they are small but because of quality considerations.
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