Can Subjective Questions on Economic Welfare Be Trusted? Evidence for Three Developing Countries
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 known about this problem. This study uses...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/12/18661004/can-subjective-questions-economic-welfare-trusted-evidence-three-developing-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16942 |