Counterfactual Decomposition of Pro-Poorness Using Influence Functions

• Tác giả: Peter J Lambert
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 515.7 Functional analysis
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2016
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 291212
• Chủ đề: 1. counterfactual analysis; 2. economic growth; 3. influence function; 4. pro-poorness; 5. social evaluation

Tóm tắt

Poverty reduction has emerged as a fundamental social objective of development, and has become a metric commonly used to assess the performance of public policy. This paper adapts the methodology of Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2009) [2009. "Unconditional Quantile Regressions." Econometrica 77 (3): 953-973] to the measurement of the pro-poorness of income growth. The method allows the analyst to identify co-variates that affect poverty reduction. The methodology is policy-relevant because policy-makers can better target these co-variates than the average level of income, or the level of inequality. We demonstrate this by application to Bangladesh 2000-2010.