Targeting humanitarian aid using administrative data: model design and validation
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- Altındağ, Onur & O'Connell, Stephen D. & Şaşmaz, Aytuğ & Balcıoğlu, Zeynep & Cadoni, Paola & Jerneck, Matilda & Foong, Aimee Kunze, 2021. "Targeting humanitarian aid using administrative data: Model design and validation," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
- Onur Altindag & Stephen D. O’Connell & Aytug Sasmaz & Zeynep Balcioglu & Paola Cadoni & Matilda Jerneck & Aimee Kunze Foong, 2019. "Targeting Humanitarian Aid Using Administrative Data: Model Design And Validation," Working Papers 1343, Economic Research Forum, revised 20 Sep 2019.
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Keywords
poverty targeting; proxy means test; cash transfers; refugees; forced displacement; Lebanon;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I39 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Other
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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