Accounting for Aggregation Bias in Almost Ideal Demand Systems

This study revisits the consistent aggregation (over households) property of almost ideal demand system (AIDS) models and presents a method to explicitly account for expenditure aggregation bias when estimating the aggregate AIDS model with time-series data. Ignoring aggregation bias can lead to bia...

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Main Authors: Ronald C. Mittelhammer, Hongqi Shi, Thomas I. Wahl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Agricultural Economics Association 1996-12-01
Series:Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Online Access:https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/31032