This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply statistical learning to large-scale country-level data obtained from the World Development Indicators and Google Earth Engine. The methods are evaluated by withholding measured poverty...

Can features extracted from high spatial resolution satellite imagery accurately estimate poverty and economic well-being The present study investigates this question by extracting both object and texture features from satellite images of Sri Lanka. These features are used to estimate poverty...

This paper examines the relationship between the type of senior high school attended by Indonesian youth and their subsequent labor market outcomes. This topic is timely in light of a recent policy shift that aims to dramatically expand vocational education. The analysis controls for an...