Andres Ramirez-Hassan, "Bayesian estimation of the EASI demand system:
Replicating the Lewbel and Pendakur (2009) results", Journal of
Applied Econometrics, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2021, pp. 484-491.

Three files are contained in the file arh-files.zip. They are all
ASCII files in DOS format. Unix/Linux users should use "unzip -a".

1) hixdata.csv is the data set file containing the base data used in
Lewbel and Pendakur "Tricks with Hicks: The EASI Demand System".

obs: observation
sfoodh: expenditure share in food at home
sfoodr: expenditure share in food out
srent: expenditure share in rent
soper: expenditure share in household operation
sfurn: expenditure share in furnishing
scloth: expenditure share in clothing
stranop: expenditure share in transportation operations
srecr: expenditure share in recreation
spers: expenditure share in personal care
pfoodh: price index in food at home
pfoodr: price index in food out
prent: price index in rent
poper: price index in household operation
pfurn: price index in furnishing
pcloth: price index in clothing
ptranop: price index in transportation operations
precr: price index in recreation
ppers: price index in personal care
log_y: standardized log expenditure
age: standardized age household head
hsex: household head sex
carown: household owns car
time: time trend
tran: a social assistance dummy equal to one if government transfers are
      greater than 10 percent of gross income 

2) BayesianEASI.R is the code for the Bayesian estimation of the EASI
model in Lewbel and Pendakur's paper

3) ResultsMatrices.csv is an auxiliary file that contains the results.