Mamma mia! Revealing hidden heterogeneity by PCA-biplot : MPC puzzle for Italy's elderly poor
Jan Wedigo Radermacher
I investigate consumption patterns in Italy and use a PCA-biplot to discover a consumption puzzle for the elderly poor. Data from the third wave (2017) of the Eurosystem’s Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) indicate that Italian poor old-aged households boast lower levels of the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) than suggested by the dominant consumption models. A customized regression analysis exhibits group differences with richer peers to be only half as large as prescribed by a traditional linear regression model. This analysis has benefited from a visualization technique for high-dimensional matrices related to the unsupervised machine learning literature. I demonstrate that PCA-biplots are a useful tool to reveal hidden relations and to help researchers to formulate simple research questions. The method is presented in detail and suggestions on incorporating it in the econometric modeling pipeline are given
Year of publication: |
2023
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Authors: | Radermacher, Jan Wedigo |
Publisher: |
Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Subject: | Ältere Menschen | Elderly people | Italien | Italy | Armut | Poverty |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Series: | SAFE working paper ; No. 382 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.4359979 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247906
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