Battistin, Erich; Miniaci, Raffaele; Weber, Guglielmo - Banca d'Italia - 2003
generate household-specific non-durable expenditure in the Bank of Italy sample that contains relatively high-quality income … data. We show that food expenditure data are of comparable quality and informational content across the two surveys, once … estimation of an inverse Engel curve on Istat data to impute non-durable expenditure to Bank of Italy observations, and show how …