Measuring inequality with asset indicators

By David J. McKenzie. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Approaches and Alternatives to the Wealth Index to Measure Socioeconomic Status Using Survey Data: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis (2019, methodology): “…inequality8 was correlated to expenditure-based inequality in 31 Mexican states found a Spearman’s rho of 0.566 (about the same strength of association as food expenditure), and slightly stronger association than either a housing-based wealth index or a utilitybased wealth index (McKenzie 2005).”
Do Community-Driven Development Projects Enhance Social Capital? Evidence from the Philippines (2008, methodology): “Moreover, following McKenzie (2005), we take advantage of the asset index to compute a measure of relative inequality (Inequality).”
School Attendance, Child Labour, and Remittances from International Migration in El Salvador (2011, methodology): “Historical migration rates by state have been used as instruments for remittance receipts by Hanson and Woodruff (2003), Hildebrandt and McKenzie (2005), Lopez-Cordova (2005), McKenzie (2005a), and Woodruff and Zenteno (2007).”
Who Is at the Wheel When Communities Drive Development? Evidence from the Philippines (2009, methodology): “Following McKenzie (2005), we take advantage of this index to compute a measure of inequality.”
Seasonal Migration and Improving Living Standards in Vietnam (2004, positive): “This finding is not surprising, as relatively few households participated in migration, so the expenditure distribution does 9 Several authors have recently suggested using asset-based measures of poverty that do not share all of the flaws listed above (McKenzie 2005; Carter and Barrett 2006).”
Labor Supply, School Attendance, and Remittances from International Migration: The Case of El Salvador (2006, methodology): “…at the lowest decile receive 10 Recent studies that use First Principal Component based indexes of assets ownership as a control for economic status and living standards are McKenzie (2005b) on inequality, Mora and Taylor (2005) on migration destination, and Tarozzi (2005) on child nutrition.”
Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change (2017, methodology): “Drawing on methods developed by McKenzie (2003) and Filmer and Prichett (2001), a composite wealth index was computed based on the value of land, livestock and other assets owned by the sampled households in the focal areas.”
Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data: the case of Turkey (2010, positive): “Our approach here closely follows McKenzie [21] in imputing consumption from the HBS into the TDHS, using a bootstrap prediction method.”