Estimating and testing preferences for consumption, work hours and savings using the PSID, the profit function and the true dynamic budget constraint

William Chin

Microeconomics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to construct an intertemporal budget constraint for selected single headed households. A new functional form of the dual consumer profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities.

Keywords: intertemporal; consumption; labor; labour; wealth; savings; PSID; Panel Study of Income Dynamics; consumer profit function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 D12 D91 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2003-12-16
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