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estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper … presents a new method which allows for the estimation of up-to-date small area poverty maps when only a dated census and a more … constructed from the census. The proposed estimator has fewer data requirements and weaker assumptions than common small area …
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education and employment come along with important decreases in fertility. By mobilizing census and survey data, this paper …
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Tanzania is home to the third highest population of stunted children in Sub-Saharan Africa, with about 2.7 million children under the age of five failing to reach their full potential of growth attainment compared with the reference population as per the World Health Organization standards....
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This paper considers the prediction estimator as an efficient estimator for the population mean. The study may be viewed as an earlier study that proved that the prediction estimator based on the iteratively weighted least squares estimator outperforms the sample mean. The analysis finds that a...
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Conflict-induced forced displacement is receiving increased interest within the international community. However, establishing an accurate picture of its scale and dynamics is extremely challenging. Large amounts of data on forced displacement are collected and disseminated each year and used to...
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to measure financial protection in health. Both relate a household's out-of-pocket spending to a threshold defined in … household being above and below the poverty line. The paper provides an overview of the methods and issues arising in each case …
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the nutritional status of the poor. This paper focuses on the relationship between household income and their nutritional … interactions between income transfers, the publicly provided inputs, and the household's response, as reflected in the effect on …
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domestic deregulation affected the coffee sector, its main source of export revenues. Using data from three household surveys …
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While the Azerbaijan household income and expenditure survey (HIES) data satisfy most empirical regularities expected … in a typical household survey data, the unequality measures based on the data are unusually low. For example, for the … paper is to investigate why inequality measures are unusually low in the Azerbaijan household survey data. The author …
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Based on a two-round household panel survey conducted in Eastern Uganda, this study shows that the analysis of the … heterogeneity, and edge effects at the plot level; a rich set of plot, household, and plot manager attributes; as well as time …-invariant household- and parcel-level unobserved heterogeneity in select specifications that exploit the panel nature of the data. The …
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