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The Return to Firm Investment in Human Capital
Almeida, Rita - 2016
In this paper the authors estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. They use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics such as...
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Returns to Investment in Education : A Decennial Review of the Global Literature
Psacharopoulos, George - 2018
Returns to investment in education based on human capital theory have been estimated systematically since the 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several compilations in the literature. This paper reviews and highlights the latest trends and patterns based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921922
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Estimating Poverty Using Cell Phone Data : Evidence from Guatemala
Hernandez, Marco - 2017
The dramatic expansion of mobile phone use in developing countries has given rise to a rich and largely untapped source of information about the characteristics of communities and regions. Call Detail Records (CDRs) obtained from cellular phones provide highly granular real-time data that can be...
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Constructing Robust Poverty Trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran : 2008-14
Atamanov, Aziz - 2017
This paper constructs and tests the robustness of consistently measured poverty trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran after 2008, using international poverty lines based on U.S. dollars at 2011 purchasing power parity. The constructed estimates reveal three distinct periods of welfare in the...
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On the Ground or in the Air? A Methodological Experiment on Crop Residue Cover Measurement in Ethiopia
Kosmowski, Frédéric - 2017
burden. This study tests six alternative methods of crop residue coverage measurement among the same sample of rural … remote sensing methods perform equally well. Among survey-based methods, the strongest correlates of measurement errors are … total farm size, field size, distance, and slope. The results deliver a ranking of measurement options that can inform …
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Retooling Poverty Targeting Using Out-of-Sample Validation and Machine Learning
McBride, Linden - 2017
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...
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Estimating Poverty Rates in Target Populations : An Assessment of the Simple Poverty Scorecard and Alternative Approaches
Diamond, Alexis - 2017
The performance of the Simple Poverty Scorecard is compared against the performance of established regression-based estimators. All estimates are benchmarked against observed poverty status based on household expenditure (or income) data from household socioeconomic surveys that span nearly a...
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Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires : Evidence from an Experiment
Cirera, X. - 2017
Little is known about innovation in developing countries, partly because of the lack of comparable and reliable data. Collecting data on firm-level innovation is challenging because of the subjective definition of what determines an innovation, a problem that is exacerbated in developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968760
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Prices for Poverty Analysis in Africa
Gaddis, Isis - 2017
Measuring poverty requires adjusting nominal consumption (or income) into a real value of consumption, across geographic areas and over time. To this end, data on consumer prices are used to construct a price index. There are a range of approaches to do this, from using the consumer price index,...
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Decomposing Response Errors in Food Consumption Measurement : Implications for Survey Design from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania
Friedman, Jed - 2017
There is wide variation in how consumption is measured in household surveys both across countries and over time. This variation may confound welfare comparisons in part because these alternative survey designs produce consumption estimates that are differentially influenced by contrasting types...
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