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Proper targeting of policy interventions requires reasonable estimates of the benefits of the alternative options. To inform such decisions, we develop an integrated approach that estimates the marginal returns to a range of assets across geographically defined sub-populations allowing returns...
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Existing program evaluation methods such as difference‐in‐difference estimators or propensity score matching are designed to examine the average impact of a program. By design they can only examine changes in a particular summary statistic of an outcome indicator, most commonly the mean or...
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Understanding how households escape poverty depends on understanding how they accumulate assets over time. Therefore, identifying the degree of linearity in household asset dynamics, and specifically any potential asset poverty thresholds, is of fundamental interest to the design of poverty...
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The ultimate goal of development is to improve health and well-being at the individual level. Yet, survey data are routinely collected at the household level. To bridge this gap the existing literature has used various, not fully satisfactory direct and indirect methods to impute individual...
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Although identifying the existence and the nature of household-level poverty traps would have important implications for the design of poverty reduction policies empirical evidence is still scant. A small, but growing empirical literature has begun testing for poverty traps as thresholds in...
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