Measuring the costs of children: Parametric and semiparametric estimators

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 171-192

  Melenberg, B ^a   Van Soest, A H O ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Costs of children; Equivalence scales; Non and semiparametric estimation; Subjective information

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030551846     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.1996.tb01486.x     Document Type: Article

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