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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 … difficult to communicate to policy makers beyond education specialists. This paper proposes two approaches to demonstrate the … individual earnings and poverty reduction, and that conversion into a non-education metric should help policy makers and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007992
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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 method utilizes expenditure data from 2004-05, 2009-10, and 2011-12 to impute household expenditure into a survey of durable goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the USD 1.90...
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Sae : a stata package for unit level small area estimation
Nguyen, Minh Cong; Corral, Paul; Azevedo, João Pedro; … - 2018
This paper presents a new family of Stata functions devoted to small area estimation. Small area methods attempt to solve low representativeness of surveys within areas, or the lack of data for specific areas/sub-populations. This is accomplished by incorporating information from outside...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002194
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Measuring the statistical capacity of nations
Cameron, Grant J.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Mustafa, Dinc; … - 2019
internationally comparable data. This paper reviews measurement methodologies, posits desired attributes, and presents theoretical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002694
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Pull your small area estimates up by the bootstraps
Corral, Paul; Molina, Isabel; Nguyen, Minh - 2020
After almost two decades of poverty maps produced by the World Bank and multiple advances in the literature, this paper presents a methodological update to the World Bank's toolkit for small area estimation. The paper reviews the computational procedures of the current methods used by the World...
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Estimating poverty for refugee populations : can cross-survey imputation methods substitute for data scarcity?
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Verme, Paolo - 2019
measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167998
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Developing Gender-Disaggregated Poverty Small Area Estimates : Technical Report
World Bank Group - 2019
Small area estimates of poverty and inequality statistics, through survey-to-census imputation that lets consumption be estimated for each and every household in a census, are useful for at least three reasons. First, they can help improve the effectiveness of public spending, by targeting to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646257
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Retooling Poverty Targeting Using Out-of-Sample Validation and Machine Learning
McBride, Linden - 2016
Proxy means test (PMT) poverty targeting tools have become common tools for beneficiary targeting and poverty assessment where full means tests are costly. Currently popular estimation procedures for generating these tools prioritize minimization of in-sample prediction errors; however, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245583
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The lost human capital : teacher knowledge and student achievement in Africa
Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Molina, Ezequiel; Svensson, Jakob - 2019
-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022369
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How effective are early grade reading interventions? : a review of the evidence
Graham, Jimmy; Kelly, Sean - 2018
It is imperative that students learn to read in the early grades, yet many fail to do so in developing countries. Early grade reading interventions have emerged as a common means to attempt to address this problem. This paper presents a definition of early grade reading interventions as...
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