@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp13222,
            	author={Battistin, Erich and Nadai, Michele De and Krishnan, Nandini},
            	title={The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements},
            	year={2020},
	month={May},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={13222},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13222},
	abstract={While household well-being derives from long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely on shorter-duration survey measurements. We develop a new strategy to identify the distribution of these long-term rates by leveraging a large-scale randomization in Iraq that elicited repeated short-duration measurements from diaries and recall questions. Identification stems from diary-recall differences in reports from the same household, does not require reports to be error-free, and hinges on a research design with broad replicability. Our strategy delivers practical and costeffective suggestions for designing survey modules to yield the closest measurements of consumption well-being. In addition, we find little empirical support for the claim that acquisition diaries yield the most accurate measurement of poverty and inequality and offer new insights to interpret and reconcile diary-recall differences in household surveys.},
	keywords={modes of data collection;measurement of inequality and poverty;household surveys},
            }