Proper targeting of policy interventions requires reasonable estimates of the benefits of the alternative options. To inform such decisions, we develop an integrated approach that estimates the marginal returns to a range of assets across geographically defined sub-populations allowing returns...

The recent empirical literature on household income dynamics in developing countries has tended to find considerable intertemporal economic mobility and thus inferred that a large proportion of poverty is transitory. This article introduces a statistical test which shows that these findings are...

Existing program evaluation methods such as difference‐in‐difference estimators or propensity score matching are designed to examine the average impact of a program. By design they can only examine changes in a particular summary statistic of an outcome indicator, most commonly the mean or...