Aggregate consumer behavior and household equivalence scales

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 219-232

  Jorgenson, Dale W ^a   Slesnick, Daniel T ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Exact aggregation; Nonlinear programming; Nonlinear three stage least squares; Personal consumption expenditures; Translog indirect utility function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952729541     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1987.10509580     Document Type: Article

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