Can Subjective Questions on Economic Welfare Be Trusted? Evidence for Three Developing Countries

While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods can be deceptive given systematic heterogeneity in respondents' scales. Little is known about this problem. This study uses...

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Main Authors: Ravallion, Martin, Himelein, Kristen, Beegle, Kathleen
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/12/18661004/can-subjective-questions-economic-welfare-trusted-evidence-three-developing-countries
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16942