Estimating expenditure impacts without expenditure data using asset proxies

Martin Wittenberg

No 29, SALDRU Working Papers from Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town

Abstract: When asset indices are used in regressions the coefficients obtained are typically difficult to interpret. We show how lower bounds on expenditure effects can be extracted, if the relationship between the assets and expenditure can be calibrated on an auxiliary data set.

Keywords: asset index; proxy variables; attenuation; obesity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2009-02
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