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

Timothy J. Halliday

No 3896, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (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: migration; measurement error; semi-parametric bounds; economies of scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 C14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-12
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