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Deaton, Angus Stewart was born in 1945 in Edinburgh, Scotland, AMERICA0.
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Over the past 15 years, the availability of cheap and convenient microcomputers has changed the collection methods and analysis of household survey data in developing countries, making the data available within months, rather than years. Simultaneously, analysts have become more interested in exploring ways in which such data may be used to inform and improve the steps involved in policymaking. This book reviews the analysis of household survey data, including the construction of household surveys, the econometric tools that are the most useful for such analysis, and a range of problems in development policy for which the econometric analysis of household surveys is useful and informative. The author's approach remains close to the data, relying on transparent econometric and graphical techniques to present the data so that policy and academic debates are clearly informed.
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This classic text has introduced generations of students to the economic theory of consumer behaviour. Written by 2015 Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton and John Muellbauer, the book begins with a self-contained presentation of the basic theory and its use in applied econometrics. These early chapters also include elementary extensions of the theory to labour supply, durable goods, the consumption function, and rationing. The rest of the book is divided into three parts. In the first of these the authors discuss restrictions on choice and aggregation problems. The next part consists of chapters on consumer index numbers; household characteristics, demand, and household welfare comparisons; and social welfare and inequality. The last part extends the coverage of consumer behaviour to include the quality of goods and household production theory, labour supply and human capital theory, the consumption function and intertemporal choice, the demand for durable goods, and choice under uncertainty.
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This book provides an overview of recent research on saving and consumption, a field in which substantial progress has been made over the last decade. Economists attempting to understand saving and consumption patterns have generated some of the best science in economics. For more than fifty years, there has been serious empirical and theoretical activity-never separating data, theory, and policy as has happened in many branches of economics. Research has drawn microeconomists interested in household behavior, as well as macroeconomists, for whom the behavior of aggregate consumption has always occupied a central role in explaining aggregate fluctuations. Econometricians have also made distinguished contributions, and there has been a steady flow of new methodologies by those working on saving and consumption, in time-series econometrics, as well as in the study of micro and panel data. A coherent account of these developments is presented here, emphasizing the interplay between micro and the macro, between studies of cross-section and panels, and those using aggregate time series data.
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Deaton, Angus Stewart was born in 1945 in Edinburgh, Scotland, AMERICA0.
Bachelor, University Cambridge, 1967. Master of Arts, University Cambridge, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge, 1974.
Economics, Bank England,
1967-1968. Research Officer, Department Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1969-1976. Fellow, Director Studies Economics, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, 1972-1976.
Professor Econometrica, Bristol University, 1976-1983. Visiting Professor, Princeton University, 1979-1980. Consultant, World Bank, since 1980.
Professor Economics International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, since 1983. Assistant Editor Review of Economic Studies, 1975-1980. Association Editor, Co-editor, Editor, Econometrica,
1978-1980, 1980-1984, since 1984.
Co-editor, Econometric Society Monographs Quantitative Ec., since 1980.
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(This classic text has introduced generations of students ...)
My work on consumer behaviour has primarily been concerned with building satisfactory econometric models, which conform to the evidence, which make theoretical sense, and which distinguish clearly the respective roles of theoretical assumption and empirical evidence. I have developed specific models of consumer choice that can reasonably be applied to the data and have worked on the choice of functional form, on the development of applicable duality theory, and on extensions of the theory to encompass demographic variables, imperfectly perceived prices, quantity rationing, and intertemporal choice under uncertainty. I have also worked on tools of statistical inference, particularly for testing ‘non-tested’ i.e. distinct econometric models.
In public economics I have worked towards the implementation of the theory of tax reform, optimal taxation and shadow prices and discovered serious pitfalls in the way of simple evaluation in practice.
Most recently, I have been concerned with household behaviour in poor countries, with the methodology of welfare comparisons and the identification of poverty, with the pattern of demand in relation to development, and with the assessment of public policy in poor countries, particularly in relation to food distribution schemes. I regard my main contributions as empirical: showing that addi
tive preferences do not describe reality, that simple-minded models of choice in terms of income and prices are rejected by the evidence, and that rationalexpectations life-cycle models of consumption and labour supply do not describe behaviour in reality. More generally, I have attempted to forge closer links between best-practice econometric analysis and economic theory over a wide range of applied problems.
I have also tried to write clearly.
Fellow Economics Society (1st Frisch medal 1978).