Optimal Cash Transfers with Distribution Regressions: An Application to Egypt at the Dawn of the XXIst Century
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- Christophe Muller, 2018. "Optimal Cash Transfers with Distribution Regressions: An Application to Egypt at the Dawn of the XXIst Century," AMSE Working Papers 1802, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France.
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Keywords
targeting; optimizing estimator; poverty;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
- C54 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Quantitative Policy Modeling
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ARA-2018-04-09 (MENA - Middle East and North Africa)
- NEP-DEV-2018-04-09 (Development)
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