英文标题:
《Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social
Interactions》
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作者:
Debopam Bhattacharya, Pascaline Dupas, Shin Kanaya
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最新提交年份:
2019
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英文摘要:
Many real-life settings of consumer-choice involve social interactions, causing targeted policies to have spillover-effects. This paper develops novel empirical tools for analyzing demand and welfare-effects of policy-interventions in binary choice settings with social interactions. Examples include subsidies for health-product adoption and vouchers for attending a high-achieving school. We establish the connection between econometrics of large games and Brock-Durlauf-type interaction models, under both I.I.D. and spatially correlated unobservables. We develop new convergence results for associated beliefs and estimates of preference-parameters under increasing-domain spatial asymptotics. Next, we show that even with fully parametric specifications and unique equilibrium, choice data, that are sufficient for counterfactual demand-prediction under interactions, are insufficient for welfare-calculations. This is because distinct underlying mechanisms producing the same interaction coefficient can imply different welfare-effects and deadweight-loss from a policy-intervention. Standard index-restrictions imply distribution-free bounds on welfare. We illustrate our results using experimental data on mosquito-net adoption in rural Kenya.
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中文摘要:
许多消费者选择的现实生活环境涉及社会互动,导致有针对性的政策产生溢出效应。本文开发了新的实证工具,用于分析具有社会互动的二元选择环境中政策干预的需求和福利效应。这方面的例子包括采用保健产品的补贴和上一所成绩优异的学校的优惠券。在I.I.D.和空间相关的不可观测项下,我们建立了大型博弈的计量经济学与Brock-Durlauf型相互作用模型之间的联系。在增加的域空间渐近条件下,我们给出了相关信念和偏好参数估计的新的收敛结果。接下来,我们表明,即使有全参数规范和唯一均衡,足以预测交互作用下反事实需求的选择数据也不足以计算福利。这是因为产生相同交互系数的不同潜在机制可能意味着政策干预的不同福利效应和无谓损失。标准指数限制意味着对福利的无分配限制。我们使用肯尼亚农村蚊帐使用的实验数据来说明我们的结果。
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分类信息:
一级分类:Economics 经济学
二级分类:Econometrics 计量经济学
分类描述:Econometric Theory, Micro-Econometrics, Macro-Econometrics, Empirical Content of Economic Relations discovered via New Methods, Methodological Aspects of the Application of Statistical Inference to Economic Data.
计量经济学理论,微观计量经济学,宏观计量经济学,通过新方法发现的经济关系的实证内容,统计推论应用于经济数据的方法论方面。
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一级分类:Economics 经济学
二级分类:General Economics 一般经济学
分类描述:General methodological, applied, and empirical contributions to economics.
对经济学的一般方法、应用和经验贡献。
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一级分类:Quantitative Finance 数量金融学
二级分类:Economics 经济学
分类描述:q-fin.EC is an alias for econ.GN. Economics, including micro and macro economics, international economics, theory of the firm, labor economics, and other economic topics outside finance
q-fin.ec是econ.gn的别名。经济学,包括微观和宏观经济学、国际经济学、企业理论、劳动经济学和其他金融以外的经济专题
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一级分类:Statistics 统计学
二级分类:Applications 应用程序
分类描述:Biology, Education, Epidemiology, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Medical, Physical Sciences, Quality Control, Social Sciences
生物学,教育学,流行病学,工程学,环境科学,医学,物理科学,质量控制,社会科学
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