Documents et rapports
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The challenge of measuring hunger (anglais)
There is widespread interest in the number of hungry people in the world and trends in hunger. Current global counts rely on combining each country's total food balance with information on distribution...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6736 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: De Weerdt,Joachim,Beegle,Kathleen G.,Friedman,Jed,Gibson, John
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Can subjective questions on economic welfare be trusted ? evidence for three developing countries (anglais)
While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods can be deceptive given systematic heterogeneity in respondents' scales. Little is...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6726 Date du document: 1 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beegle,Kathleen G.,Kastelic,Kristen Himelein,Ravallion,Martin
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What does variation in survey design reveal about the nature of measurement errors in household consumption ? (anglais)
This paper uses data from eight different consumption questionnaires randomly assigned to 4,000 households in Tanzania to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6372 Date du document: 1 février 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beegle,Kathleen G.,De Weerdt,Joachim,Friedman,Jed,Gibson,John David
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Methods of household consumption measurement through surveys : experimental results from Tanzania (anglais)
Consumption expenditure has long been the preferred measure of household living standards. However, accurate measurement is a challenge and household expenditure surveys vary widely across many dimensions...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5501 Date du document: 1 décembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beegle,Kathleen G.,De Weerdt,Joachim,Friedman,Jed,Gibson, John
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Explaining variation in child labor statistics (anglais)
Child labor statistics are critical for assessing the extent and nature of child labor activities in developing countries. In practice, widespread variation exists in how child labor is measured. Questionnaire...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5414 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dillon,Andrew S.,Bardasi,Elena,Beegle,Kathleen G.,Serneels,Pieter Maria
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Do labor statistics depend on how and to whom the questions are asked ? results from a survey experiment in Tanzania (anglais)
Labor market statistics are critical for assessing and understanding economic development. In practice, widespread variation exists in how labor statistics are measured in household surveys in low-income...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5192 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bardasi,Elena,Beegle,Kathleen G.,Dillon,Andrew S.,Serneels,Pieter Maria
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Measuring household usage of financial services : does it matter how or whom You Ask ? (anglais)
In recent years, the number of surveys of access to and use of financial services has multiplied, but little is known about whether the data generated are comparable across countries, or within the same...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5048 Date du document: 1 septembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cull,Robert J.,Scott, Kinnon
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Frame-of-reference bias in subjective welfare regressions (anglais)
Past research has found that subjective questions about an individuals' economic status do not correspond closely to measures of economic welfare based on household income or consumption. Survey respondents...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4904 Date du document: 1 avril 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beegle,Kathleen G.,Kastelic,Kristen Himelein,Ravallion,Martin