Estimating expenditure impacts without expenditure data using asset proxies
By: Martin Wittenberg
Contributors: University of Cape Town. Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
Series: Working paper series -- no. 29; Saldru working paper -- no. 29
Publisher: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780981430409
Subjects: Assets (Accounting); Obesity; Economic aspects; Regression analysis; Mathematical models
Description: "When asset indices are used in regressions the coefficients obtained are typically difficult to interpret. We show how lower bounds on expenditure effects can be extracted, if the relationship between the assets and expenditure can be calibrated on an auxiliary data set"--T.p.
Notes: "This is a joint SALDRU/DataFirst working paper."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 7).

Also available via the Internet.