Krishna is a Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University and a Research Fellow at IFS. Krishna is interested in three major areas of empirical research: the measurement of well-being, poverty, discrimination and economic inequality; the estimation of consumer demand; semi-parametric and non-parametric econometrics.
Education
PhD Economics, UC Berkeley, 1994
MA Economics, University of British Columbia, 1990
BA (Honours) Sociology, University of British Columbia, 1989
We provide a new full-commitment intertemporal collective household model to estimate resource shares, defined as the fraction of household expenditure enjoyed by household members.
Individuals may be poor even if their household is not poor, because the intra-household distribution of resources may be unequal. We develop a model wherein the resource share of each person in a collective household - defined as their share of household consumption - may be estimated by simple linear regressions using off-the-shelf consumer expenditure micro-data.
We consider a revealed preference-based method that will bound the minimal partition of consumer microdata into a set of preference types such that the data are perfectly rationalisable by standard utility theory.
Individual cost of living indices will vary across individuals, and thus any social cost-of-living index faces an aggregation problem. This article proposes a solution to this problem.
