Estimating expenditure impacts without expenditure data using asset proxies
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2015-05-28
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Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
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University of Cape Town
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When asset indices are used in regressions the coefficients obtained are typically difficult to interpret. We show how lower bounds on expenditure effects can be extracted, if the relationship between the assets and expenditure can be calibrated on an auxiliary data set.