Weighty Evidence? Poverty Estimation with Missing Data

Q3 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Studies in Microeconomics Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI:10.1177/23210222241238846

Jean Drèze, A. Somanchi

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Abstract

Attempts have been made to estimate poverty in India using a biased dataset, by adjusting household weights to remove or reduce the bias. The effectiveness of this method, however, is uncertain. Simulation exercises suggest that its ability to correct poverty estimates varies wildly depending on the nature of the underlying bias, which may be hard to guess—there lies the rub. When the bias changes over time, estimating poverty trends becomes truly problematic. There are wider lessons for poverty estimation with biased or missing data. JEL Codes: C83, I32

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重要证据？有缺失数据的贫困估算

有人曾试图利用有偏差的数据集来估算印度的贫困状况，方法是调整家庭权重以消除或减少偏差。然而，这种方法的有效性并不确定。模拟实践表明，该方法纠正贫困估算值的能力因基本偏差的性质不同而有很大差异，而基本偏差的性质可能很难猜测，这就是问题所在。当偏差随着时间的推移而变化时，贫困趋势的估算就真正成了问题。这对使用有偏差或缺失的数据进行贫困估算具有更广泛的借鉴意义。JEL Codes：C83, I32

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Studies in Microeconomics Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all)

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