Predicting Poverty with Missing Incomes
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- Verme, Paolo, 2023. "Predicting Poverty with Missing Incomes," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1260, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
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Keywords
Income modeling; Income Distributions; Poverty Predictions;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- E64 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Incomes Policy; Price Policy
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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- NEP-CMP-2023-04-17 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-DCM-2023-04-17 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-DES-2023-04-17 (Economic Design)
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