Hohberg, Maike; Landau, Katja; Kneib, Thomas; Klasen, … - 2017
This paper analyzes several modifications to improve a simple measure of vulnerability as expected poverty. Firstly, in … distribution to the covariates. Secondly, we determine the vulnerability cutoff endogenously instead of defining a household as … and our vulnerability cutoff. We find that our new cutoff considerably increases predictive performance. Placing the …