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

Timothy Halliday

No 3896, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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: semi-parametric bounds; measurement error; migration; economies of scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2008-12
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Published - published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (2), 246-262

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Journal Article: Mismeasured Household Size and its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale* (2010)
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