The Analysis of Household Surveys (Reissue Edition with a New Preface) : A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (496 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Purpose and intended audience -- Policy and data: methodological issues -- Structure and outline -- Chapter 1: The design and content of household surveys -- 1.1 Survey design -- Survey frames and coverage -- Strata and clusters -- Unequal selection probabilities, weights, and inflation factors -- Sample design in theory and practice -- Panel data -- 1.2 The content and quality of survey data -- Individuals and households -- Reporting periods -- Measuring consumption -- Measuring income -- 1.3 The Living Standards Surveys -- A brief history -- Design features of LSMS surveys -- What have we learned? -- 1.4 Descriptive statistics from survey data -- Finite populations and superpopulations -- The sampling variance of the mean -- Using weights and inflation factors -- Sampling variation of probability-weighted estimators -- Stratification -- Two-stage sampling and clusters -- A superpopulation approach to clustering -- Illustrative calculations for Pakistan -- The bootstrap -- 1.5 Guide to further reading -- Chapter 2: Econometric issues for survey data -- 2.1 Survey design and regressions -- Weighting in regressions -- Recommendations for practice -- 2.2 The econometrics of clustered samples -- The economics of clusters in developing countries -- Estimating regressions from clustered samples -- 2.3 Heteroskedasticity and quantile regressions -- Heteroskedasticity in regression analysis -- Quantile regressions -- Calculating quantile regressions -- Heteroskedasticity and limited dependent variable models -- Robust estimation of censored regression models -- Radical approaches to censored regressions -- 2.4 Structure and regression in nonexperimental data -- Simultaneity, feedback, and unobserved heterogeneity -- Example 1. Prices and quantities in local markets. Example 2. Farm size and farm productivity -- Example 3. The evaluation of projects -- Example 4. Simultaneity and lags: nutrition and productivity -- Measurement error -- Selectivity issues -- 2.5 Panel data -- Dealing with heterogeneity: difference- and within-estimation -- Panel data and measurement error -- Lagged dependent variables and exogeneity in panel data -- 2.6 Instrumental variables -- Policy evaluation and natural experiments -- Econometric issues for instrumental variables -- 2.7 Using a time-series of cross-sections -- Cohort data: an example -- Cohort data versus panel data -- Panel data from successive cross sections -- Decompositions by age, cohort, and year -- 2.8 Two issues in statistical inference -- Parameter transformations: the delta method -- Sample size and hypothesis tests -- 2.9 Guide to further reading -- Chapter 3: Welfare, poverty, and distribution -- 3.1 Living standards, inequality, and poverty -- Social welfare -- Inequality and social welfare -- Measures of inequality -- Poverty and social welfare -- The construction of poverty lines -- Measures of poverty -- The choice of the individual welfare measure -- Example 1. Inequality and poverty over time in Côte d'lvoire -- Example 2: Inequality and poverty by race in South Africa -- Exploring the welfare distribution: inequality -- Lorenz curves and inequality in South Africa and Côte d'lvoire -- Stochastic dominance -- Exploring the welfare distribution: poverty -- 3.2 Nonparametric methods for estimating densities -- Estimating univariate densities: histograms -- Estimating univariate densities: kernel estimators -- Estimating univariate densities: examples -- Extensions and alternatives -- Estimating bivariate densities: examples -- 3.3 Analyzing the distributional effects of policy -- Rice prices and distribution in Thailand. The distributional effects of price changes: theory -- Implementing the formulas: the production and consumption of rice -- Nonparametric regression analysis -- Nonparametric regressions for rice in Thailand -- Bias in kernel regression: locally weighted regression -- The distributional effects of the social pension in South Africa -- 3.4 Guide to further reading -- Chapter 4: Nutrition, children, and intrahousehold allocation -- 4.1 The demand for food and nutrition -- Welfare measures: economic or nutritional? -- Nutrition and productivity -- The expenditure elasticity of nutrition: background -- Evidence from India and Pakistan -- Regression functions and regression slopes for Maharashtra -- Allowing for household structure -- The effect of measurement errors -- 4.2 Intra-household allocation and gender bias -- Gender bias in intrahousehold allocation -- A theoretical digression -- Adults, children, and gender -- Empirical evidence from India -- Boys versus girls in rural Maharashtra: methodology -- Standard errors for outlay equivalent ratios -- Boys versus girls in rural Maharashtra: results -- Côte d'lvoire, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Taiwan (China) -- 4.3 Equivalence scales: theory and practice -- Equivalence scales, welfare, and poverty -- The relevance of household expenditure data -- Cost-of-living indices, consumers' surplus, and utility theory -- Calculating the welfare effect of price -- Equivalence scales, the cost of children, and utility theory -- The underidentification of equivalence scales -- Engel's method -- Rothbarth's method -- Other models of equivalence scales -- Economies of scale within the household -- Utility theory and the identification of economies of scale -- 4.4 Guide to further reading -- Chapter 5: Looking at price and tax reform -- 5.1 The theory of price and tax reform for developing countries -- Tax reform. Generalizations using shadow prices -- Evaluation of nonbehavioral terms -- Alternative approaches to measuring behavioral responses -- 5.2 The analysis of spatial price variation -- Regional price data -- Household price data -- Unit values and the choice of quality -- Measurement error in unit values -- 5.3 Modeling the choice of quality and quantity -- A stripped-down model of demand and unit values -- Modeling quality -- Estimating the stripped-down model -- An example from Côte d'lvoire -- Functional form -- Quality, quantity, and welfare: cross-price effects -- Cross-price effects: estimation -- Completing the system -- 5.4 Empirical results for India and Pakistan -- Preparatory analysis -- The first-stage estimates -- Price responses: the second-stage estimates for Pakistan -- Price estimates and taste variation, Maharashtra -- 5.5 Looking at price and tax reform -- Shadow taxes and subsidies in Pakistan -- Shadow taxes and subsidies in India -- Adapting the price reform formulas -- Equity and efficiency in price reform in Pakistan -- Equity and efficiency in price-reform in India -- 5.6 Price reform: parametric and nonparametric analysis -- 5.7 Guide to further reading -- Chapter 6: Saving and consumption smoothing -- 6.1 Life-cycle interpretations of saving -- Age profiles of consumption -- Consumption and saving by cohorts -- Estimating a life-cycle model for Taiwan (China) -- 6.2 Short-term consumption smoothing and permanent income -- Saving and weather variability -- Saving as a predictor of income change? -- 6.3 Models of saving for poor households -- The basic model of intertemporal choice -- Special cases: the permanent income and life-cycle models -- Further analysis of the basic model: precautionary saving -- Restrictions on borrowing -- Borrowing restrictions and the empirical evidence -- 6.4 Social insurance and consumption. Consumption insurance in theory -- Empirical evidence on consumption insurance -- 6.5 Saving, consumption, and inequality -- Consumption, permanent income, and inequality -- Inequality and age: empirical evidence -- Aging and inequality -- 6.6 Household saving and policy: a tentative review -- Motives, consequences, and policy -- Saving and growth -- Determinants of saving -- 6.7 Guide to further reading -- Code appendix -- Bibliography -- Subject index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Author index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.