Mismeasured Household Size and Its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale

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Mismeasured Household Size and Its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale

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Halliday, Timothy () (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

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Timothy J. Halliday

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We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size and find that the degree of these measurement errors is non-trivial. However, while these errors have the potential to resolve the Deaton-Paxson paradox, they fail to do so.

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- Timothy Halliday, 2007. "Mismeasured Household Size and Its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale," Working Papers 200709, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

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