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Price Trends in India and Their Implications for Measuring Poverty
Deaton, Angus - 2008
.6 percent should have been 14.3 percent. Indian poverty lines are held constant in real terms and are updated using the food and … non-food components of the official indices weighted by the food shares of households near the poverty line. Because these … weights come from a 1973-4 survey, food is heavily over weighted for the contemporary poor, and the nominal poverty lines are …
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To adjust or not to adjust? : spatial price variation and the measurement of poverty
Kjelsrud, Anders - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 124 (2022) 3, pp. 773-796
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Biases in Cross-Space Comparisons Through Cross-Time Price Indexes : The Case of Russia
Gluschenko, Konstantin - 2007
Lacking data on price levels across locations (countries, national regions, etc.) for cross-space comparisons, researchers resort to local consumer price indexes (CPIs) over time to evaluate these levels. This approach unfortunately fails to specify, even generally, the exactness of such...
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Anatomy of regional price differentials : evidence from micro price data
Weinand, Sebastian; Auer, Ludwig von - 2019
Our paper uses micro price data collected from Germany’s Consumer Price Index to compile a highly disaggregated regional price index for the 402 counties and cities of Germany. We introduce a multi-stage version of the weighted Country-Product- Dummy method. The unique quality of our price...
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Anatomy of regional price differentials : evidence from micro price data
Weinand, Sebastian; Auer, Ludwig von - 2019
indispensable for meaningful spatial comparisons of regional output, income, wages, productivity, standards of living, and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011965163
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Anatomy of regional price differentials : evidence from micro price data
Weinand, Sebastian; Auer, Ludwig von - 2019
indispensable for meaningful spatial comparisons of regional output, income, wages, productivity, standards of living, and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011999778
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Measuring Spatial Price Differentials : A Comparison of Stochastic Index Number Methods
Weinand, Sebastian - 2020
Spatial price comparisons rely to a high degree on the quality of the underlying price data that are collected within or across countries. Below the basic heading level, these price data often exhibit large gaps. Therefore,stochastic index number methods like the CPD method and the GEKS method...
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How useful is CPI price data for spatial price adjustment in poverty measurement? : a case from Ghana
Chen, Xiaomeng; Mungai, Rose; Nakamura, Shohei; … - 2020
Measuring and comparing the levels of household welfare and poverty in a country require cost-of-living differences … importance of detailed product quality information in the price data. Taking advantage of the price data availability in Ghana …, this case study explores the Consumer Price Index price data as a source for spatial price measurement. It applies the …
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Welfare effects of changed prices : the "tortilla crisis" revisited
Motzigkeit Gonzalez, Rita - 2016
This study uses a comprehensive framework to quantify the welfare changes of rural and non-rural households in Mexico associated with the food price crisis of 2007. The total change in welfare is decomposed into five contributors. I find that income effects, i.e. changes through profits and...
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Consumer price behavior in Mexico under inflation targeting : a microdata approach
Ysusi, Carla - 2010
In this paper we do a statistical analysis of the Mexican Consumer Price Index microdata set to characterize the rigidities of the price setting process in the different sectors of the Mexican economy. The microdata set goes from July 2002 to December 2009. Broadly, results show that there...
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