4 papers
Measurement Error and Peer Effects in Networks
Yann Bramoullé, Sebastiaan Maes
In many practical applications, only noisy proxies for the true regressors are available, which is commonly believed to induce an attenuation bias. In the linear-in-means model, ho…
Beyond the Mean: Testing Consumer Rationality through Higher Moments of Demand
Sebastiaan Maes, Raghav Malhotra
We study a setting where an analyst has access to purely aggregate information about the consumption choices of a heterogenous population of individuals. We show that observing the…
Identifying the Distribution of Welfare from Discrete Choice
Bart Capéau, Liebrecht De Sadeleer, Sebastiaan Maes
Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals' preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. We develop a framework to cond…
Consumer Welfare Under Individual Heterogeneity
Charles Gauthier, Sebastiaan Maes, Raghav Malhotra
We propose a nonparametric method for estimating the distribution of consumer welfare from cross-sectional data with no restrictions on individual preferences. First demonstrating…