Assessing Asset Indices.
The use of asset indices in welfare analysis and poverty targeting is increasing, especially in cases in which data on expenditures are unavailable or hard to collect. We compare alternative approaches to welfare measurement. Our analysis shows that inferences about inequalities in education, health...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 359 - 393 |
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