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Using cross-survey imputation to estimate poverty for Venezuelan refugees in Colombia

Sarr, Ibrahima; Dang, Hai-Anh; Guzman Gutierrez, Carlos … - 2024

Household consumption or income surveys do not typically cover refugee populations. In the rare cases where refugees are included, inconsistencies between different data sources could interfere with comparable poverty estimates. We test the performance of a recently developed cross-survey...

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Predicting poverty with missing incomes

Verme, Paolo - 2023

Poverty prediction models are used by economists to address missing data issues in a variety of contexts such as poverty profiling, targeting with proxy-means tests, cross-survey imputations such as poverty mapping, or vulnerability analyses. Based on the models used by this literature, this...

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Measuring poverty in forced displacement contexts

Pape, Utz Johann; Verme, Paolo - 2023

Poverty measurement among forcibly displaced populations, including refugees and internally displaced persons, has been, for long, neglected by the economics profession and by poverty specialists working across the social sciences. This has changed since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in...

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Estimating inequality with missing incomes

Brunori, Paolo; Salas-Rojo, Pedro; Verme, Paolo - 2022

The measurement of income inequality is affected by missing observations, espe- cially if they are concentrated on the tails of an income distribution. This paper conducts an experiment to test how the different correction methods proposed by the statistical, econometric and machine learning...

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Do refugees with better mental health better integrate? : evidence from the building a new life in Australia longitudinal survey

Dang, Hai-Anh; Trinh, Trong-Anh; Verme, Paolo - 2021

Hardly any evidence currently exists on the causal effects of mental illness on refugee labor market outcomes. We offer the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host countries with the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Analyzing the Building a New...

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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty : a brief assessment of the literature

Ceriani, Lidia; Hlásny, Vladimír; Verme, Paolo - 2021

The paper discusses the main issues related to negative and zero incomes that are relevant for the measurement of poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the sources and structure of these incomes, outlines the...

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Which model for poverty predictions?

Verme, Paolo - 2020

OLS models are the predominant choice for poverty predictions in a variety of contexts such as proxy-means tests, poverty mapping or cross-survey imputations. This paper compares the performance of econometric and machine learning models in predicting poverty using alternative objective...

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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics

Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020

The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...

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Estimating poverty among refugee populations : a cross-survey imputation exercise for Chad

Beltramo, Theresa; Dang, Hai-Anh; Sarr, Ibrahima; … - 2020

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad, by combining United Nations High Commissioner for...

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Excess mortality as a predictor of mortality crises : the case of COVID-19 in Italy

Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - 2020

The paper provides initial evidence that excess mortality rates by locality can be used as a statistically reliable predictor of looming mortality crises. Using recently published daily deaths figures for 7,357 Italian municipalities, we estimate the growth in daily mortality rates between the...

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