TY - JOUR
T1 - Households and the social organization of consumption in Southern Ghana
AU - Udry, Christopher
AU - Woo, Hyungi
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - This article replicates Guyer's finding in Marginal Gains (2004) of a social gradient in expenditure patterns of Ghanaian households using more flexible statistical techniques than those used in the book. We show that similar gradients are found in Côte d'Ivoire and in Kagera, Tanzania, suggesting that Guyer's finding in Ghana is a manifestation of a more general phenomenon. In addition, we examine patterns of measurement error in household expenditure data from Ghana. Thisreveals a worrying possibility that survey reports of expenditure may reflect respondents' beliefs about what expenditures should be, as well as actual expenditures within the household.
AB - This article replicates Guyer's finding in Marginal Gains (2004) of a social gradient in expenditure patterns of Ghanaian households using more flexible statistical techniques than those used in the book. We show that similar gradients are found in Côte d'Ivoire and in Kagera, Tanzania, suggesting that Guyer's finding in Ghana is a manifestation of a more general phenomenon. In addition, we examine patterns of measurement error in household expenditure data from Ghana. Thisreveals a worrying possibility that survey reports of expenditure may reflect respondents' beliefs about what expenditures should be, as well as actual expenditures within the household.
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U2 - 10.1353/arw.2007.0124
DO - 10.1353/arw.2007.0124
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:57749158498
VL - 50
SP - 139
EP - 153
JO - African Studies Review
JF - African Studies Review
SN - 0002-0206
IS - 2
ER -