How reliable are household expenditures as a proxy for permanent income? Implications for the income–nutrition relationship

Using short-run expenditures from household surveys as a proxy may create attenuated estimates of the impact of permanent income on economic outcomes. We use repeated observations to calculate reliability ratios and estimate errors in variables regressions of the impact of income on nutrition. We find significant responses to income, in contrast to previous influential studies.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Gibson, John ; Kim, Bonggeun
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 118.2013, 1, p. 23-25
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Income \| Measurement error \| Nutrition

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	C2 - Econometric Methods: Single Equation Models ; I3 - Welfare and Poverty ; O1 - Economic Development
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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