OLS models are the predominant choice for poverty predictions in a variety of contexts such as proxy-means tests, poverty mapping or cross-survey imputations. This paper compares the performance of econometric and machine learning models in predicting poverty using alternative objective...

The question of how to measure and classify people's risk preferences is of substantial importance in the field of Economics. Inspired by the multitude of ways used to elicit them, we conduct a holistic investigation of the most prevalent method, the multiple price list (MPL) and its...