Although household well-being is anchored in long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely on shorter-duration survey measurements. This paper develops a new strategy to identify the distribution of these long-term rates by leveraging a large-scale randomization that elicited repeated short-duration measurements from diaries and recall questions. Identification stems from diary-recall differences in reports from the same household, does not require these reports to be error-free, and hinges on a research design with broad replicability. This strategy delivers cost-effective suggestions for designing survey modules to yield the most accurate measurements of consumption well-being, and offers new insights for interpreting and reconciling diary-recall differences in household expenditure surveys.

The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements / E. Battistin, M. De Nadai, N. Krishnan. - [s.l] : World Bank Group, 2020 May. (WORLD BANK POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER)

The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements

M. De Nadai
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2020

Abstract

Although household well-being is anchored in long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely on shorter-duration survey measurements. This paper develops a new strategy to identify the distribution of these long-term rates by leveraging a large-scale randomization that elicited repeated short-duration measurements from diaries and recall questions. Identification stems from diary-recall differences in reports from the same household, does not require these reports to be error-free, and hinges on a research design with broad replicability. This strategy delivers cost-effective suggestions for designing survey modules to yield the most accurate measurements of consumption well-being, and offers new insights for interpreting and reconciling diary-recall differences in household expenditure surveys.
mag-2020
Household Consumption; Household Expenditure Surveys; Inequality; Poverty and Household Well-Being; Modes of Data Collection;
Settore SECS-P/05 - Econometria
https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/859711590085498228/pdf/The-Insights-and-Illusions-of-Consumption-Measurements.pdf
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