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Chapter 6. Statistical Methods for Distributional Analysis

Cowell, Frank A.; Flachaire, Emmanuel - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 359-465). 2015

This chapter discusses the formal and informal techniques that are commonly used to give quantitative answers in the field of distributional analysis. To this end, it covers subjects including inequality, poverty, and the modeling of income distributions. It also deals with parametric and...

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Statistical methods for distributional analysis

Cowell, Frank A.; Flachaire, Emmanuel - 2015

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Pull your small area estimates up by the bootstraps

Corral, Paul; Molina, Isabel; Nguyen, Minh - 2020

After almost two decades of poverty maps produced by the World Bank and multiple advances in the literature, this paper presents a methodological update to the World Bank's toolkit for small area estimation. The paper reviews the computational procedures of the current methods used by the World...

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Correcting Sampling and Nonresponse Bias in Phone Survey Poverty Estimation Using Reweighting and Poverty Projection Models

Zhang, Kexin - 2023

major limitations, such as the absence of poverty data, sampling bias due to incomplete telephone coverage in many … weights were adjusted to correct the sampling and nonresponse bias. This paper examines whether reweighting procedures and the … Survey of Wellbeing via Instant and Frequent Tracking methodology can eliminate the bias in poverty estimation based on the …

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