Measurement of Household Welfare

Name: Measurement of Household Welfare
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ISBN: 9780521451956

ISBN-10: 0521451957

ISBN-13: 9780521451956

Edition: 1994

Authors: Richard Blundell, Ian Preston, Ian Walker

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The measurement of household welfare is one of the most compelling yet demanding areas in economics. To place the analysis of inequality and poverty within an economic framework where individuals are making decisions about current and lifetime incomes and expenditures is a difficult task, made all the more challenging by the complexity of the decision making process in which households are involved and the variety of constraints they face. This book examines the conceptual and practical difficulties of making inferences from observed behaviour. It addresses the problems of making comparisons across a range of very different households and discusses how data for such comparisons should be…

Book details

List price: $119.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/15/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 294
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English




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