Estimating and predicting household expenditures and income distributions

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A reliable prediction of unconditional welfare distributions, like income or consumption, is essential for welfare analysis, and in particular for inequality, poverty or development studies. Where observations of expenditures or income are missing, the mean prediction based on available covariates is not just a poor estimator of the unconditional distribution; it fails to predict the required information about tails and quantiles. A new estimation method is introduced which can be combined with any mean prediction model. It is used to calculate the income distribution of a survey based on subsample information, to estimate the unconditional income distribution for the non-responding households, and to predict the household expenditures of a future panel wave. It allows for imputing welfare distributions for a census from a survey or for synthetic populations under specific scenarios. Further inference is straight-forward, including prediction of Lorenz curves, indexes like the Gini, or distribution quantiles, including confidence intervals.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 47-2011

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: household expenditures ; income distribution ; poverty mapping ; project evaluation ; data matching ; Verbraucherausgaben ; Einkommensverteilung ; Schätztheorie ; Prognoseverfahren ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Dai, Jing ; Sperlich, Stefan ; Zucchini, Walter
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
• (wo): Marburg
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/56558
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ