| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22919 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22919 |
| A Poor Means Test? Econometric Targeting in Africa | |
| Caitlin Brown; Martin Ravallion; Dominique van de Walle | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-12-12 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a proxy-means test score based on chosen covariates, which is then implemented for targeting out-of-sample. In this paper, the performance of various proxy-means testing methods is assessed using data for nine African countries. Standard proxy-means testing helps filter out the nonpoor, but excludes many poor people, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method dominating in most cases. Even so, either a basic-income scheme or transfers using a simple demographic scorecard are found to do as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full information, none of these targeting methods brings the poverty rate below about three-quarters of its initial value. The prevailing methods are particularly deficient in reaching the poorest. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22919 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580592 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Caitlin Brown,Martin Ravallion,Dominique van de Walle. A Poor Means Test? Econometric Targeting in Africa. 2016. |
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| w22919.pdf（1600KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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