The behavioral and welfare analysis of consumption : the cost of children, equity and poverty in Colombia /

The behavioral and welfare analysis of consumption : the cost of children, equity and poverty in Colombia / by Federico Perali.

The Behavioral and Welfare Analysis of Consumption covers a wide range of applications using modern parametric and nonparametric econometric techniques related to the behavioural and welfare analysis of consumption. The applications measuring the cost of children, equity and poverty in Colombia are...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Perali, Federico
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]
Subjects:
Consumption (Economics) > Colombia > Econometric models.
Poverty > Colombia > Econometric models.
Consumption (Economics) > Econometric models.
Poverty > Econometric models.
Colombia.
Table of Contents:
  • Theory
  • A Demographically Modified Demand Model: Behavioral and Welfare Properties
  • Modified Demand Systems
  • Specification of the Barten-Gorman Linear Almost Ideal Demand System in Share Form
  • Homogeneity, Adding Up and the Identifying Restrictions of the Demographic Parameters
  • Symmetry and Concavity
  • Nonnegativity and Monotonicity
  • Specification of the Barten-Gorman Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System
  • Aggregative Properties of the Barten-Gorman Model
  • Exact Aggregation and Interpersonal Comparisons
  • Demographics and Quality: Household Production Theory and the "Repackaging Model" Revisited
  • Demographic Effects and Quality
  • Relevance of Household Production Theory and the "Repackaging Model" to Quality Measurement
  • A Unified Approach: Objective versus Subjective Quality
  • The Demographic Slutsky Equation
  • Subjective Quality
  • Household Equivalence Scales and Interpersonal Comparisons
  • Equivalence Scales and the Cost of Children
  • Interpersonal Comparisons and Equivalence Scales
  • Interpersonal Comparisons and Behavior: the IB Property and the Identification Problem
  • The Implementation of Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being
  • An Example: Piglog Preferences and Identification of Equivalence Scales
  • The Distribution of Welfare
  • Income Dependent Equivalence Scales
  • Equivalence Scales and Intra-Household Allocation
  • Restrictive Measures of Well-Being
  • The Engel Method
  • The Rothbarth Method
  • Unrestrictive Measures of Well-Being
  • Equivalence Scales in the Barten-Gorman Framework.

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