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A nonparametric anallysis of welfare and the economic shocks

The behaviour of the permanent and transitory economic shocks for different levels of households' welfare is studied using both consumption and income measures. After testing for heteroskedasticity of the economic shocks, we use local polynomial regression models to estimate the variance of the shocks conditional on welfare level. Italian data covering the period 1980-2004 show evidence of heteroskedasticity of both the transitory and the permanent economic shocks, with the poor experiencing higher variances. The permanent shocks seem to have a more uniform effect at all welfare levels.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: cemmap working paper ; No. CWP22/06

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
heteroskedasticity , income and consumption welfare measures , local polynomial regression , permanent and transitory shocks

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Rosati, Nicoletta
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
(where)
London
(when)
2006

DOI
doi:10.1920/wp.cem.2006.2206
Handle
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Rosati, Nicoletta
  • Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)

Time of origin

  • 2006

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