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Measuring Consumer Welfare With Mean Demands

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  • Edward E. Schlee

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The welfare change from a price increase-for example, the compensating variation (cv)-is often calculated using the expenditure function from an estimated demand. If there is unobserved preference heterogeneity, then the estimated demand is an average over households with different preferences. And the cv from the mean demand does not generally equal the mean cv. We give conditions ensuring that the cv from the mean demand equals the mean cv, is less than the mean cv, and approximates the mean cv better than the change in consumers' surplus. A necessary condition is that demands become more dispersed as income rises. Copyright 2007 by the Economics Department Of The University Of Pennsylvania And Osaka University Institute Of Social And Economic Research Association.

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  • Edward E. Schlee, 2007. "Measuring Consumer Welfare With Mean Demands," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 48(3), pages 869-899, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:ier:iecrev:v:48:y:2007:i:3:p:869-899
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    1. M. Ali Khan & Edward E. Schlee, 2016. "On Lionel McKenzie's 1957 intrusion into 20th-century demand theory," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 49(2), pages 589-636, May.
    2. Michael Jerison, 2023. "Social welfare and the unrepresentative representative consumer," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 25(1), pages 5-28, February.
    3. Thomas Demuynck, 2018. "Testing the homogeneous marginal utility of income assumption," Econometric Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(10), pages 1120-1136, November.
    4. Sebastiaan Maes & Raghav Malhotra, 2023. "Robust Hicksian Welfare Analysis under Individual Heterogeneity," Papers 2303.01231, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2023.
    5. Demuynck, T., 2015. "The homogeneous marginal utility of income assumption," Research Memorandum 013, Maastricht University, Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE).
    6. Maes, Sebastiaan & Malhotra, Raghav, 2024. "Robust Hicksian Welfare Analysis under Individual Heterogeneity," CRETA Online Discussion Paper Series 84, Centre for Research in Economic Theory and its Applications CRETA.

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