3 papers
econ.EM2026
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…
econ.TH2025
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…
econ.TH2025
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…