Mismeasured Household Size and its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale
36 Pages Posted: 22 Dec 2008
Abstract
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.
Keywords: migration, measurement error, semi-parametric bounds, economies of scale
JEL Classification: J12, C14
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