@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp3896, author={Halliday, Timothy J.}, title={Mismeasured Household Size and Its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale}, year={2008}, month={Dec}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={3896}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3896}, abstract={We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size and find that the degree of these measurement errors is non-trivial. However, while these errors have the potential to resolve the Deaton-Paxson paradox, they fail to do so.}, keywords={semi-parametric bounds;measurement error;migration;economies of scale}, }