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New imputation procedures in the measurement of inequality, growth, and poverty in Brazil
Hecksher, Marcos; Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Silva, Pedro … - 2018
This paper develops a new imputation methodology applied to missing incomes values in PNAD. PNAD is the main Brazilian household survey, but it has no imputation. The imputation process starts by fitting regression models applied to different income sources considering the complex sampling...
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The insights and illusions of consumption measurements
Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Krishnan, Nandini - 2020
While household well-being derives from long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely on shorter-duration survey measurements. We develop a new strategy to identify the distribution of these long-term rates by leveraging a large-scale randomization in Iraq that...
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Differences in inequality measurement : Ghana case study
Atta-Ankomah, Richmond; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica; Osei, … - 2023
Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently … extent to which estimates of Gini coefficients from the WIID Companion are consistent with and add to the prevailing … understanding of inequality in Ghana. To this end, we review the primary source of data for the three main Gini series on Ghana …
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Measurement of health, the sensitivity of the concentration index, and reporting heterogeneity
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2009
Using representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for 2006, we show that the magnitude of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure. The highest degree of inequality is found when...
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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009
In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally repre- sentative household budget or income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This...
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Improved Wealth Measures in the Health and Retirement Study : Asset Reconciliation and Cross-Wave Imputation
Hurd, Michael D. - 2016
In this report, we present improved wealth measures for the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which aim to reduce the effect of observation error on wealth levels and changes in wealth. The new wealth measures take account of the asset verification section in the HRS and use cross-wave...
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Measurement error in earnings data: replication of Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek’s mixture model approach to combining survey and register data
Jenkins, Stephen; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2021
Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek (MRW, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2012) develop methods for prediction of a single earnings figure per worker from mixture factor models fitted using earnings data from multiple linked data sources. MRW apply their method using parameter estimates...
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Perspectives on poverty in Europe
Jenkins, Stephen - 2018
I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955500
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Combining administrative and survey data to improve income measurement
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2019
We describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by decomposing the total survey error in the mean of survey reports of dollars received from a government transfer program. We decompose this error into three parts, generalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997525
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Subjective Well-Being as Welfare Measure: Concepts and Methodology.
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-being based on co-existing concepts, resulting in differing measures and giving rise to different potential policy applications. This paper motivates the societal necessity for using well-being...
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