2 papers
econ.EM2024
Empirical Welfare Analysis with Hedonic Budget Constraints
Debopam Bhattacharya, Ekaterina Oparina, Qianya Xu
We analyze demand settings where heterogeneous consumers maximize utility for product attributes subject to a nonlinear budget constraint. We develop nonparametric methods for welf…
econ.EM2024
Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions
Debopam Bhattacharya, Pascaline Dupas, Shin Kanaya
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…