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Economic approach to intergenerational mobility : measures, methods, and challenges in developing countries

Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2019

coefficient. In contrast, intergenerational correlation and intergenerational rank correlation are much more robust to such data …-rank regression. Sibling correlation is a broader measure of mobility, particularly useful with limited data. Estimating causal … causal effects of policies on intergenerational regression coefficient, intergenerational correlation, and intergenerational …

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A new inequality estimate for urban India? : using house prices to estimate inequality in Mumbai

Rongen, Gerton - 2018

This paper applies a novel inequality estimation method to household consumption expenditure in Mumbai, India. Since the richest households may be missing in survey data, this reestimated inequality figure takes them into account by combining survey data with house price data. However,...

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Inequality and institutional outcomes in Viet Nam : a combined principal components and clustering analysis

Hoang, Thu K.; Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin; Dang Thi … - 2024

Better understanding of inequality, including its relationship to governance and other key outcomes, is relevant both to academic researchers and to policy-makers. Nevertheless, efforts to establish causal relationships empirically remain hampered by the quality and availability of data,...

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The impact of multiple imputation of coarsened data on estimates on the working poor in South Africa

Vermaak, Claire - 2010

South African household surveys typically contain coarsened earnings data, which consist of a mixture of missing earnings values, point responses and interval-censored responses. This paper uses sequential regression multivariate imputation to impute missing and interval-censored values in the...

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First order dominance analysis : child wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Nanivazo, Malokele - 2014

This paper performs a multidimensional first order dominance (FOD) analysis of child wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This methodology allows the ordinal ranking of the 11 provinces of the DRC in terms of their wellbeing based upon the probability of their domination. This...

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Putting it all together : aggregating impacts of school-feeding programmes on education, health and nutrition: two proposed methodologies

Gelli, Aulo; Espejo, Francisco; Shen, Jing; … - 2014

School-feeding is an important intervention to attract children to school and augment their learning. The benefits of school-feeding cover several domains. Key to the overall assessment of these benefits is understanding how different implementation models compare to each other and to other...

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Advancing small area estimation

Arndt, Channing; Hussain, M. Azhar; Salvucci, Vincenzo; … - 2013

The poverty mapping methodology for estimating welfare rankings from small areas has proven to be useful in guiding allocation of government funds, regional planning, and general policy formulation. Nevertheless, poverty mapping also suffers from a series of by now well recognized shortcomings....

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Aid and investment in statistics for Africa

Round, Jeffery I. - 2012

Over many past decades countries in sub-Saharan Africa have received extensive bilateral and multilateral aid in support of the production of relevant, timely, and good quality data and statistics. But assessing aid effectiveness in the statistical area is a complex matter. Many datasets are...

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How many manufacturing firms are there in Mozambique?

Schou, Søren; Cardoso, José - 2014

This paper addresses the issue of poor data on Mozambican manufacturing firms. A new dataset (the merged manufacturing database) is merged from provincial industrial databases from each of Mozambique's 11 provinces. The new dataset is assessed by comparing it to the latest manufacturing...

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Spatial and temporal analyses of women's wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Nanivazo, Malokele; Mahrt, Kristi - 2015

This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. Using the multidimensional...

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