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| Tekijä: | Skoufias, E. Coady, D.P. |
| Otsikko: | Are the welfare losses from imperfect targeting important? |
| Lehti: | Economica
2007 : NOV, VOL. 74:296, p. 756-776 |
| Asiasana: | econometrics statistics social policy standard of living welfare |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This paper quantifies and compares the size of the welfare (hereafter as: w-f. losses arising from the use of alternative 'imperfect' w-f. indicators (as: inds.) as substitutes for the conventionally preferred consumption inds. It is found that the size of the w-f. losses associated with different inds. varies considerably. An asset-based index and the share of food as targeting (as: t-g.) inds. were found to have the highest w-f. losses relative to all other t-g. inds. examined. This paper's preferred w-f. index implies that the losses from the two best t-g. inds. are statistically significant but very low, less than 5 percent. |
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