Are poor cities cheap for everyone? Non-homotheticity and the cost of living across U.S. cities

DOI10.3982/ECTA11738MaRDI QIDQ3390563zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jessie Handbury

Publication date 24 March 2022

Published in Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3982/ecta11738

zbMATH Keywords

cost of livingnon-homotheticityprice indexvariety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Consumer behavior, demand theory (91B42) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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