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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future: The Elasticity of Marginal Utility of Consumption: Estimates for 20 OECD Countries (Evans 2005) Household Production and the Elasticity of Marginal Utility of Consumption (Thureson 2016, PDF) New Estimates of the Elasticity of Marginal Utility for the UK (Groom and Maddison 2019, open access)

-- The graph of the utility functions look misleading to me, due to the truncated domain of [1, 3]. When η>1, we should have the Inada condition ${\displaystyle \lim _{c\rightarrow 0}u(c)=-\infty }$, but the graph gives the impression that utility is bounded from below.

Clausen ( talk) 17:05, 29 February 2016 (UTC) reply

-- The caption on the graph is incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.207.9.145 ( talk) 16:10, 10 April 2024 (UTC) reply