Retooling Poverty Targeting Using Out-of-Sample Validation and Machine Learning / Linden McBride.
Proxy means test (PMT) poverty targeting tools have become common tools for beneficiary targeting and poverty assessment where full means tests are costly. Currently popular estimation procedures for generating these tools prioritize minimization of in-sample prediction errors; however, the objectiv...
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2016.
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