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Estimating poverty in India without expenditure data : a survey-to-survey imputation approach

Newhouse, David Locke; Vyas, Pallavi - 2019

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The …

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International comparisons of poverty in South Asia

Islam, Tommoy T. M.; Newhouse, David Locke; … - 2018

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Distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures

Datt, Gaurav - 2018

methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …

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Job opportunities along the rural-urban gradation and female labor force participation in India

Chatterjee, Urmila; Murgai, Rinku; Rama, Martín - 2015

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Inflation targeting in India : an interim assessment

Li, Shanjun; Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam; … - 2020

This paper provides an assessment of India's inflation-targeting regime. It shows that the Reserve Bank of India is … best characterized as a flexible inflation targeter: contrary to criticism, it does not neglect changes in the output gap … when setting policy rates. The paper does not find that the Reserve Bank of India became more hawkish following the …

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Equivalent years of schooling : a metric to communicate learning gains in concrete terms

Evans, David K.; Yuan, Fei - 2019

In the past decade, hundreds of impact evaluation studies have measured the learning outcomes of education interventions in developing countries. The impact magnitudes are often reported in terms of "standard deviations," making them difficult to communicate to policy makers beyond education...

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Test score gap robustness to scaling : the scale transformation command

Chang, Andres Yi - 2019

Social scientists frequently rely on the cardinal comparability of test scores to assess achievement gaps between population subgroups and their evolution over time. This approach has been criticized due to the ordinal nature of test scores and the sensibility of results to order-preserving...

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