of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation … this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate exact equivalence scales using several parametric … inequality and poverty. We conclude that differences in estimation methods for equivalence scales might be less important than …

Pseudo-panels allow estimation of panel models when only repeated cross-sections are available. This involves grouping …

the case of panel data, an estimation of the incidence of measurement error on the total variance can be obtained by …

This paper investigates the household consumption behavior in Russia. The model assumes that household consumption can …

In this paper it is shown that the intratemporal and intertemporal preferences of each decision maker in the household … account that household behavior is the outcome of joint decisions. The empirical findings indicate that there is heterogeneity … in intertemporal preferences between wife and husband. The identification and estimation results are important for at …

estimation of equivalence scales have been proposed. Until now, however, no comprehensive comparison of current methods has been … conducted. In this paper, we employ German household expenditure data to estimate equivalence scales using several parametric …