The Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference for Collective Households
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The purpose of this paper is to derive extensions of the weak axiom of revealed preference (warp) to collective households. We consider three different settings: the general setting, where no information on the characteristics of goods is available; the private setting, where all goods are consumed privately without externalities, and finally, the dictator setting, where each observation is fully assigned to a single member of the household. For each of the above settings, we propose an extension of warp and we establish the complexity of testing that extension.
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