Using an asset index to simulate household income

Commonly available survey data for developing countries often do not include income or expenditure data. This data limitation puts severe constraints on standard poverty and inequality analyses. We provide a simple approach to simulate household income based on publicly available Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and macroeconomic data. We illustrate our approach with DHS data for Bolivia, Indonesia and Zambia.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Harttgen, Kenneth ; Vollmer, Sebastian
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 121.2013, 2, p. 257-262
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Asset index \| Household income \| Developing countries

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; I31 - General Welfare; Basic Needs; Quality of Life ; I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; O1 - Economic Development
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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