Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74834 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
LICOS Discussion Paper No. 280
Publisher: 
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Leuven
Abstract: 
We address the issue of endogenous expenditures in the context of a censored demand system by an augmented regression approach estimated with a two-step estimator. An application to food demand by urban households in Mozambique shows that accounting for endogeneity is potentially important in obtaining reliable point estimates of price and, in particular, expenditure elasticities. Furthfirmore, a bootstrap approach to obtain confidence intervals when data are clustered - as is the case with most household surveys - is devised. Based on a Monte Carlo exercise we speculate that previous studies in failing to account for the clustered nature of the data overstate the precision with which elasticities are estimated.
Subjects: 
Censored demand system
endogeneity
survey data
elasticities
Mozambique
food demand
JEL: 
D12
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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