Retooling Poverty Targeting Using Out-of-Sample Validation and Machine Learning
Proxy means test (PMT) poverty targeting tools have become common tools for beneficiary targeting and poverty assessment where full means tests are costly. Currently popular estimation procedures for generating these tools prioritize minimization o...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/10/26839841/retooling-poverty-targeting-using-out-of-sample-validation-machine-learning http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25166 |