The Performance of a Consumption Augmented Asset Index in Ranking Households and Identifying the Poor
Asset ownership indices are widely used as inexpensive proxies for consumption. This paper shows that these indices can be augmented using dichotomous indicators for consumption, which are equally easy to obtain. The paper uses multiple rounds of L...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/882101520515555525/The-performance-of-a-consumption-augmented-asset-index-in-ranking-Households-and-Identifying-the-Poor http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29456 |