Robust Hicksian Welfare Analysis under Individual Heterogeneity
Sebastiaan Maes () and
Raghav Malhotra
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Welfare effects of price changes are often estimated with cross-sections; these do not identify demand with heterogeneous consumers. We develop a theoretical method addressing this, utilizing uncompensated demand moments to construct local approximations for compensated demand moments, robust to unobserved preference heterogeneity. Our methodological contribution offers robust approximations for average and distributional welfare estimates, extending to price indices, taxable income elasticities, and general equilibrium welfare. Our methods apply to any cross-section; we demonstrate them via UK household budget survey data. We uncover an insight: simple non-parametric representative agent models might be less biased than complex parametric models accounting for heterogeneity.
Date: 2023-03, Revised 2023-11
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