Pull Your Small Area Estimates up by the Bootstraps (English)

After almost two decades of poverty maps produced by the World Bank and multiple advances in the literature, this paper presents a methodological update to the World Bank's toolkit for small area estimation. The paper reviews the computational procedures of the current methods used by the World Bank: the traditional approach by Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw (2003) and the Empirical Best/Bayes (EB) addition introduced by Van der Weide (2014). The addition...

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Corral Rodas,Paul Andres;

Molina,Isabel;

Nguyen,Minh Cong;
Document Date
2020/05/21
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS9256
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2020/05/21
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Pull Your Small Area Estimates up by the Bootstraps
Keywords
Poverty and Equity

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Corral Rodas,Paul Andres; Molina,Isabel; Nguyen,Minh Cong.

Pull Your Small Area Estimates up by the Bootstraps (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9256 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/714341590090749405

Pull Your Small Area Estimates up by the Bootstraps (English)

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