Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2015
zero. Using the estimated optimal weights, we compute estimates of true income per capita and $1/day poverty rates for the … developing world and its regions. We get poverty estimates that are substantially lower and fall substantially faster than those … of Chen and Ravallion (2010) or of the survey-based poverty literature more generally. Our result is mainly driven by the …