Two decades after its original publication, The Analysis of Household Surveys is reissued with a new preface by its author, Sir Angus Deaton, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. This classic work remains relevant to anyone with a serious interest in using household survey...

In diesem Jahr wurde der in Princeton lehrende, britisch-amerikanische Ökonom Angus Deaton mit dem Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften ausgezeichnet. Es werden damit - wie es in der offiziellen Verlautbarung des Nobelpreiskomitees heißt - seine Analysen von Konsum, Armut und Wohlfahrt...

This paper examines whether the observed cross-country correlation between aggregate saving rates and economic growth can be explained by models in which higher growth increases saving rates, rather than the other way around. The paper focusses on two explanations of why growth might increase...