...Mauricio Reis Purpose This paper aims to investigate whether shocks to the health of a self‐employed worker in Brazil increase the labour supply of other household members. Design/methodology/approach Using data from the Brazilian National Household Survey, this paper investigates whether...

... and their findings about “conditional” convergence are questionable and cannot be used to give a definitive response on this issue. Economics Economics theory Growth Surveys The neo‐classical growth model, based on Solow’s (1956) and Swan’s (1956) seminal papers, has seen a revival of interest...

...E. Douglas Beach; Jorge Fernandez‐Cornej; Noel D. Uri Survey data on expected and actual prices received by individual vegetable growers in Florida, Michigan and Texas in 1990 are used to test the rational expectations hypothesis. The use of individual grower data overcomes many of the issues...

... that y₂,t may not be strictly exogenous (Engle and Yoo, 1991). © MCB UP Limited 1995 Econometrics Estimating Surveys The estimation and testing of cointegrating economic relationships has represented an important area of research in econometrics (see, for example, Banerjee et...

... throughout to other articles which explain particular methods or recent developments more formally and fully than is possible here. Finally, a simple application of cointegration techniques to the estimation of the consumption function is provided. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Econometrics Surveys...

...David Blake The different types of estimators of rational expectations models are surveyed. A key feature is that the model′s solution has to be taken into account when it is estimated. The two ways of doing this, the substitution and errors‐in‐variables methods, give rise to different estimators...