Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/245657 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14606
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad, combining survey and administrative data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The proposed method offers poverty estimates based on administrative data that are mostly statistically insignificantly different from those based on survey consumption data. This result is robust to different poverty lines, sets of regressors, and modeling assumptions of the error terms. We find the method to outperform common targeting methods, such as proxy means tests and the targeting method that is currently used by humanitarian organizations in Chad.
Subjects: 
refugees
forced displacement
poverty
imputation
targeting
Chad
JEL: 
C15
F22
I32
O15
O20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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