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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Measuring and Understanding Behavior, Welfare, and Poverty

  • Angus Deaton
American Economic Review
vol. 106, no. 6, June 2016
(pp. 1221–43)
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Citation

Deaton, Angus. 2016. "Measuring and Understanding Behavior, Welfare, and Poverty." American Economic Review 106 (6): 1221–43. DOI: 10.1257/aer.106.6.1221

JEL Classification

  • C83 Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
  • D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
  • D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
  • D15 Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
  • E21 Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
  • I31 General Welfare; Well-Being
  • I32 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty