Estimating expenditure impacts without expenditure data using asset proxies

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.

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Year of publication:	2009-02
Authors:	Wittenberg, Martin
Institutions:	Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), School of Economics
Subject:	asset index \| proxy variables \| attenuation \| obesity

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	SALDRU Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The price is Free Number 29 12 pages
Classification:	C13 - Estimation ; C81 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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