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Title

The analysis of household surveys : a microeconometric approach to development policy / Angus Deaton.

Author

Deaton, Angus.

Publication

Baltimore, MD : Published for the World Bank [by] Johns Hopkins University Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

viii, 479 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Household surveys > Developing countries > Methodology
• Developing countries > Economic conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-462) and indexes.

Contents

• 1. The design and content of household surveys. 1.1. Survey design. 1.2. The content and quality of survey data. 1.3. The Living Standards Surveys. 1.4. Descriptive statistics from survey data. 1.5. Guide to further reading -- 2. Econometric issues for survey data. 2.1. Survey design and regressions. 2.2. The econometrics of clustered samples. 2.3. Heteroskedasticity and quantile regressions. 2.4. Structure and regression in nonexperimental data. 2.5. Panel data. 2.6. Instrumental variables. 2.7. Using a time-series of cross-sections. 2.8. Two issues in statistical inference. 2.9. Guide to further reading -- 3. Welfare, poverty, and distribution. 3.1. Living standards, inequality, and poverty. 3.2. Nonparametric methods for estimating densities. 3.3. Analyzing the distributional effects of policy. 3.4. Guide to further reading -- 4. Nutrition, children, and intrahousehold allocation. 4.1. The demand for food and nutrition.
• 4.2. Intra-household allocation and gender bias. 4.3. Equivalence scales: theory and practice. 4.4. Guide to further reading -- 5. Looking at price and tax reform. 5.1. The theory of price and tax reform for developing countries. 5.2. The analysis of spatial price variation. 5.3. Modeling the choice of quality and quantity. 5.4. Empirical results for India and Pakistan. 5.5. Looking at price and tax reform. 5.6. Price reform: parametric and nonparametric analysis. 5.7. Guide to further reading -- 6. Saving and consumption smoothing. 6.1. Life-cycle interpretations of saving. 6.2. Short-term consumption smoothing and permanent income. 6.3. Models of saving for poor households. 6.4. Social insurance and consumption. 6.5. Saving, consumption, and inequality. 6.6. Household saving and policy: a tentative review. 6.7. Guide to further reading.

ISBN

0801852544

LCCN

97002905

OCLC

• 36417768
• ocm36417768

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries