Spatial disaggregation of poverty and disability: Application to Tanzania

• Main Author: FUJII, Tomoki
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Poverty; Disability; Tanzania; Aggregation; Two-sample instrumental variables estimation; Arts and Humanities; Econometrics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2692; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3691/viewcontent/Spatial.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Estimating poverty measures for disabled people in developing countries is often difficult, partly because relevant data are not readily available. We extend the small-area estimation developed by Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw (2002, 2003) to estimate poverty by the disability status of the household...