TY - JOUR
T1 - Estimating poverty and inequality in the absence of consumption data
T2 - an application to the Middle East and North Africa
AU - Krafft, Caroline
AU - Assaad, Ragui
AU - Nazier, Hanan
AU - Ramadan, Racha
AU - Vahidmanesh, Atiyeh
AU - Zouari, Sami
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partially supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York [grant number B 8939].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Economic Research Forum.
PY - 2019/1/2
Y1 - 2019/1/2
N2 - Measures of consumption and poverty are critical metrics of the wellbeing of individuals, their households, communities, and countries. Collecting data on consumption and poverty is challenging and costly, and therefore these measures are only infrequently available in survey data. In this paper, we demonstrate how information commonly available in household surveys can be used to impute consumption, even recovering the original variance, which is crucial for assessments of poverty and inequality. Our application adds consumption estimates to the publicly available Labor Market Panel Surveys for Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia, which can act as a valuable resource for researchers interested in the intersection of inequality, poverty, and a host of labor market behaviors in the Middle East and North Africa.
AB - Measures of consumption and poverty are critical metrics of the wellbeing of individuals, their households, communities, and countries. Collecting data on consumption and poverty is challenging and costly, and therefore these measures are only infrequently available in survey data. In this paper, we demonstrate how information commonly available in household surveys can be used to impute consumption, even recovering the original variance, which is crucial for assessments of poverty and inequality. Our application adds consumption estimates to the publicly available Labor Market Panel Surveys for Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia, which can act as a valuable resource for researchers interested in the intersection of inequality, poverty, and a host of labor market behaviors in the Middle East and North Africa.
KW - Inequality
KW - consumption
KW - labor market panel surveys
KW - poverty
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U2 - 10.1080/17938120.2019.1583493
DO - 10.1080/17938120.2019.1583493
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85082078333
SN - 1793-8120
VL - 11
SP - 1
EP - 29
JO - Middle East Development Journal
JF - Middle East Development Journal
IS - 1
ER -
