Proper targeting of policy interventions requires reasonable estimates of the benefits of the alternative options. To inform such decisions, we develop an integrated approach that estimates the marginal returns to a range of assets across geographically defined sub-populations allowing returns...

Existing program evaluation methods such as difference‐in‐difference estimators or propensity score matching are designed to examine the average impact of a program. By design they can only examine changes in a particular summary statistic of an outcome indicator, most commonly the mean or...

The recent empirical literature on household income dynamics in developing countries has tended to find considerable intertemporal economic mobility and thus inferred that a large proportion of poverty is transitory. This article introduces a statistical test which shows that these findings are...

Proper targeting of policy interventions requires reasonable estimates of the benefits of the alternative options. To inform such decisions, we develop an integrated approach stemming from the small-area estimation literature that estimates the marginal returns to a range of assets across...