Using an asset index to simulate household income

Kenneth Harttgen and Sebastian Vollmer

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 121, issue 2, 257-262

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.

Keywords: Asset index; Household income; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 I31 I32 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.08.014

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