Poverty maps provide information on the spatial distribution of living standards. They are an important tool to policymakers, who rely on them to allocate transfers and inform policy design. This article uses the case of Ecuador to demonstrate how sample survey data can be combined with census...

We construct and derive the properties of an estimator of welfarewhich takes advantage of the detailed nature of information about living standards available in small household surveys and the comprehensive coverage of a census. By combining the strengths of each, our estimator can be used at a...

Elbers, Lanjouw, and Lanjouw discuss the use of imputed data in regression analysis, in particular the use of highly disaggregated welfare indicators (from so-called quot;poverty mapsquot;). They show that such indicators can be used both as explanatory variables on the right-hand side and as...

The authors discuss the use of imputed data in regression analysis, in particular the use of highly disaggregated welfare indicators (from so-called "poverty maps"). They show that such indicators can be used both as explanatory variables on the right-hand side and as the phenomenon to explain...