Estimating expenditure impacts without expenditure data using asset proxies

estimating imports using aggregate expenditure components in iran

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Estimating health expenditure shares from household surveys.

OBJECTIVE To quantify the effects of household expenditure survey characteristics on the estimated share of a household's expenditure devoted to health. METHODS A search was conducted for all country surveys reporting data on health expenditure and total household expenditure. Data on total expenditure and health expenditure were extracted from the surveys to generate the health expenditure s...

Estimating An ECM-AIDS Model For Urban-Area's Household Expenditure: The Case Of Iran

Analysis of public expenditure on health using state level data

Increasingly the governments are facing pressures to increase budgetary allocations to social sectors. Recently there has been suggestion to increase the government budget allocations to health sector and increase it to 3 per cent of GDP. Is this feasible goal and in what time-frame? Health being State subject in India and much depends on the ability of the State governments to allocate higher ...

Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data--or tears: an application to educational enrollments in states of India.

Using data from India, we estimate the relationship between household wealth and children's school enrollment. We proxy wealth by constructing a linear index from asset ownership indicators, using principal-components analysis to derive weights. In Indian data this index is robust to the assets included, and produces internally coherent results. State-level results correspond well to independen...