The behavioral and welfare analysis of consumption : the cost of children, equity and poverty in Colombia /
"The Behavioral and Welfare Analysis of Consumption is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students interested in the applied fields of consumption economics, welfare economics, development economics and applied econometrics. The contents of...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers,
c2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Theory
- 1. A Demographically Modified Demand Model: Behavioral and Welfare Properties
- 2. Demographics and Quality: Household Production Theory and the "Repackaging Model" Revisited
- 3. Household Equivalence Scales and Interpersonal Comparisons
- Pt. II. Econometric Applications
- 4. Estimation of a Censored Demand System
- 5. Indexes of Characteristics: Income and Substitution Effects
- 6. The Cost of Children and the Distribution of Welfare
- Pt. III. Policy Applications
- 7. Microsimulations of Poverty and Inequality Using the Distribution of Welfare
- 8. Equity Versus Efficiency in Colombia During the Second Half of the 1980s
- 9. Conclusions
- Annex. Issues in Data Management of Expenditure Surveys and Non-Parametric Tools.