Cost of characteristics indices and household equivalence scales
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Portions of this research were done while the author was visiting the MIT Sloan School. This research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation, through grant number SES-8712787. I would like to thank Dale Jorgenson for suggesting this line of research and for his valuable comments and suggestions. Any errors are my own.