This paper develops a method to predict comparable income and consumption distributions for all countries in the world from a simple regression with a handful of country-level variables. To fit the model, the analysis uses more than 2,000 distributions from household surveys covering 168 countries from the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform. More than 1,000 economic, demographic, and remote sensing predictors from multiple databases are...
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2025/01/13
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政策研究报告
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WPS11034
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1
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2025/01/13
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Disclosed
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Predicting Income Distributions from Almost Nothing