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- Title
RICE PRICES AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN THAILAND: A NON-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS.
- Authors
Deaton, Angus
- Abstract
I am concerned here with patterns of household demand and supply and how knowledge of those patterns affects the assessment of pricing policies. I have two main aims, one substantive, and one methodological. My first, substantive, aim is to examine the effects of rice prices on the distribution of real incomes across different households. My second, methodological, aim is to explore statistical methods that do justice to the richness of the household survey data, and that allow convincing demonstration and presentation of results with a minimum of unnecessary assumption. The plan of the paper is as follows. The organisation follows the substantive question of rice pricing with methodological comments along the way. Section I provides a brief theoretical outline that motivates the empirical work. Section II presents the analysis of demand and supply patterns for rice and of the distributional consequences of alternative pricing schemes. Section III concludes.
- Subjects
THAILAND; HOUSEHOLDS; GOVERNMENT pricing policy; SUPPLY &; demand; RICE marketing; INCOME; CONSUMPTION (Economics); HOUSEHOLD surveys
- Publication
Economic Journal, 1989, Vol 99, Issue 395, p1
- ISSN
0013-0133
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2234068