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Measuring Welfare Changes In Behavioural Micro Simulation Modeling: Accounting for the Random Utility ComponentJohn CreedyUniversity of Melbourne - Department of Economics Nicolas HeraultUniversity of Melbourne - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Guyonne R.J. KalbUniversity of Melbourne - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research May 1, 2011 Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 5-34, May 2011 Abstract: This paper presents a method of predicting individuals’ welfare changes (compensating and equivalent variations) arising from a tax or social security policy change in the context of behavioural microsimulation modelling, where individuals can choose between a limited number of discrete hours of work. The method allows fully for the nonlinearity of the budget constraint facing each individual, the probabilistic nature of the labour supply model and the presence of unobserved heterogeneity in the estimation of preference functions. Yet it is relatively straightforward to implement. An advantage of welfare measures, compared with changes in net incomes, is that they take into account the value of leisure and home production. The method is applied to a hypothetical income tax policy change in Australia.
Keywords: welfare change measures, equivalent variation, compensating variation, labour supply modeling, nonlinear budget constraint JEL Classification: D63, H31, J22 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: June 15, 2011 ; Last revised: June 23, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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