Does survey recall error explain the Deaton-Paxson puzzle?

Matthew Brzozowski, Thomas Crossley () and Joachim Winter ()

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: Using recall and diary food expenditure data from Canada, we compare estimates of the household size elasticity of per capita food expenditure. In contrast to Gibson (2002), we find negative elasticities in both recall and diary data. This in turn means we find evidence of the "Deaton-Paxson puzzle" in both diary and recall data. Recall error cannot be the sole explanation of the puzzle. (C) 2017 TheAuthors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

JEL-codes: C81 D12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Published in Economics Letters 158(2017): pp. 18-20

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