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	Provedor de dados AgEcon (1) Autor Alcaraz V., Gabriela (1) Houssou, Nazaire (1) Johannsen, Julia (1) Schwarze, Stefan (1) Zeller, Manfred (1) Palavra-chave Bootstrap (1) Consumer/Household Economics (1) Food Security and Poverty (1) Out-of-sample test (1) Poverty assessment (1) Proxy means test (1) Targeting (1) Uganda (1) Mais... Tipo do documento Conference Paper or Presentation (1) Ano 2007 (1) País United States (1) Idioma Inglês (1)		Ordenar por:  Relevância Autor Título Ano Registros recuperados: 1 Primeira ... 1 ... Última Proxy Means Tests for Targeting the Poorest Households -- Applications to Uganda AgEcon Houssou, Nazaire; Zeller, Manfred; Alcaraz V., Gabriela; Schwarze, Stefan; Johannsen, Julia. The motivation for this research stems from increasing interest showed for the issue of targeting. The paper explores the use of proxy means tests to identify the poorest households in Uganda. The set of indicators used in our model includes variables usually available in Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS). Previous researches seeking to develop proxy means tests for poverty most often use Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) as regression method. In addition to the OLS, the paper explores the use of Linear Probability Model, Probit, and Quantile regressions for correctly predicting the household poverty status. A further innovation of this research compared to the existing literature is the use of out-of sample validation tests to assess the predictive... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Uganda; Poverty assessment; Targeting; Proxy means test; Out-of-sample test; Bootstrap; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty. Ano: 2007 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7946 Registros recuperados: 1 Primeira ... 1 ... Última

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