Ravallion, Martin; Himelein, Kristen; Beegle, Kathleen - 2014
While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods … uses specially-designed surveys in three countries, Tajikistan, Guatemala, and Tanzania, to study scale heterogeneity … considerable doubt on the meaning of widely-used summary measures such as subjective poverty rates. Nonetheless, under the …