Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5059114 | Economics Letters | 2013 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Commonly available survey data for developing countries often do not include income or expenditure data. This data limitation puts severe constraints on standard poverty and inequality analyses. We provide a simple approach to simulate household income based on publicly available Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and macroeconomic data. We illustrate our approach with DHS data for Bolivia, Indonesia and Zambia.
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Authors
Kenneth Harttgen, Sebastian Vollmer,