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Direct linkWorts, Diana; Sacker, Amanda; McDonough, Peggy – Social Indicators Research, 2010
This paper addresses a key methodological challenge in the modeling of individual poverty dynamics--the influence of measurement error. Taking the US and Britain as case studies and building on recent research that uses latent Markov models to reduce bias, we examine how measurement error can affect a range of important poverty estimates. Our data…
Descriptors: Poverty, Measurement, Error of Measurement, Probability
Ravallion, Martin; Wodon, Quentin – 1998
Assessment of welfare gains from a targeted social program can be seriously biased unless the endogeneity of program participation is addressed. Bias comes from two sources of placement endogeneity: the purposive targeting of geographic areas, and the targeting of individual recipients within selected areas. Partial decentralization of program…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Foreign Countries
