Exploring Alternative Measures of Welfare in the Absence of Expenditure Data

By D. Sahn, David Stifel. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa (2003, background): “1 See, for example, Dudley Seers who discusses the ‘capital city’ bias in development. 2 Thorbecke (1996) also notes the adverse effects of distorted terms of trade on agricultural production in Nigeria.”
The Construction of an Asset Index Measuring Asset Accumulation in Ecuador (2007, positive): “Among the papers that use PCA or similar methods, Sahn and Stifel (2003) come closest to implementing a multidimensional approach.”
Does Access to Formal Agricultural Credit Depend on Caste (2013, neutral): “Sahn & Stifel (2003) argue that information elicited about consumption expenditure during surveys is likely to be both inaccurate because of recall or truth-telling problems, as well as unrepresentative of long-run household wealth since poor households’ consumption exhibits substantial seasonal or…”
Approaches and Alternatives to the Wealth Index to Measure Socioeconomic Status Using Survey Data: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis (2019, methodology): “1 3 reasoning is often applied to outcomes such as childhood stunting which take many years to develop, but also applies to other social welfare outcomes (Filmer and Pritchett 2001; Sahn and Stifel 2003).”
People's Republic of China (2011, methodology): “…which are usually difficult and time-consuming to collect, building an asset index by reducing the different variables into a single indicator, is well established in the literature and can be a viable alternative to measure household wealth (Filmer and Pritchett, 2001; Sahn and Stifel, 2003).”
A Logistic Regression Model to Identify Key Determinants of Poverty Using Demographic and Health Survey Data (2010, background): “Income is generally the measure of choice in developed countries while the preferred metric in developing countries is an aggregate of a household's consumption expenditures, Sahn and Stifel (2003).”
WILDS: A Benchmark of in-the-Wild Distribution Shifts (2020, neutral): “…index computed as the first principal component of survey responses about household assets, which is thought to be a less noisy measure of households’ longer-run economic well-being than other welfare measurements such as consumption expenditure (Sahn and Stifel, 2003; Filmer and Scott, 2011).”
Are middlemen facilitators or barriers to improve smallholders' welfare in rural economies? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia (2016, background): “In the general literature, welfare could be captured by the level of income, asset, or amount of expenditure (Sahn and Stifel, 2003).”
Constructing socio-economic status indices: how to use principal components analysis. (2006, methodology): “Factor analysis was used by Sahn and Stifel (2003) and has a similar aim to PCA, in terms of expressing a set of variables into a smaller number of indices or factors.”
Poverty and firewood consumption : A case study of rural households in northern China (2011, methodology): “The interested reader can also refer to Sahn & Stifel (2003) for a detailed discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of the approach as compared to a principal component analysis approach. will be used in interaction terms with collection time.”