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

• Autores: Timothy J. Halliday
• Localización: Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics, ISSN 0305-9049, Vol. 72, Nº. 2, 2010, págs. 246-262
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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. These errors have the potential to resolve the Deaton–Paxson paradox, but fail to do so.