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Revealed preference theory o¤ers a criterion for decision-making quality: if decisions are high quality then there exists a utility function that the choices maximize.
Dan Silverman +3 more
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Estimating Consumer Preferences for Food, Using Time Series Data of Pakistan [PDF]
Consumer preferences for food and non-food items in Pakistan are frequently estimated by using data from the household surveys. However, structural change in consumer preferences, caused by changes in tastes, can be studied by using the annual time ...
Abid A. Burki
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Revealed cardinal preference [PDF]
I prove that as long as we allow the marginal utility for money lamda to vary between purchases (similarly to the budget) then the quasi-linear and the ordinal budget-constrained models rationalize the same data.
József Sákovics (University of Edinburgh)
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Scientific ReportsMajor depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with T cell activation, but no studies have examined the combined effects of T cell activation and deficits in T regulatory (Treg) cells on the severity of acute phase MDD. Using flow cytometry, we determined
Muanpetch Rachayon +4 more
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Toward a unified approach to testing for weak separability [PDF]
In this paper we propose a unified framework for testing weak separability. We present a new three-step procedure, which is a joint test of necessary and sufficient conditions that takes account of possible measurement error and incomplete adjustment. We
Barry Jones +3 more
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This paper presents a nonparametric method for calculating a lower bound on the virtual or reservation price of a new good. This allows the welfare effects of product market innovations to be investigated. We illustrate the technique using consumer panel
Laura Blow
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CONSUMER DEMAND ANALYSIS ACCORDING TO GARP [PDF]
The nonparametric approach to consumer-demand analysis-based on revealed-preference axioms-is reviewed. Particular attention is paid to questions of size and power of tests for consistency of data with the existence of a stable, well-behaved utility ...
Alston, Julian M., Chalfant, James A.
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Nonparametric Analysis of Household Labor Supply: Goodness-of-Fit and Power of the Unitary and the Collective Model [PDF]
We compare the empirical performance of unitary and collective labor supply models, using representative data from the Dutch DNB Household Survey.We conduct a nonparametric analysis that avoids the distortive impact of an erroneously speci.ed functional ...
Cherchye, L.J.H., Vermeulen, F.M.P.
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Testing the RPI data for consistency with the theory of the cost-of-living index [PDF]
This paper tests the published section level price and weight dataused in the compilation of the UK Retail Prices Index for consistencywith the theory of the cost-of-living index.
Ian Crawford, Isabella Image
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