4 papers
A Toolkit for the Study of Treatment-Effect Discontinuities
Alessandro Baldi Antognini, Paolo Verme
This paper provides a toolkit for the study of distributional treatment effects (DTEs) focused on treatment-effect discontinuities defined as points where marginal distributional e…
The Role of Data and Metrics in Measuring Inequality Worldwide. A Tribute to Giovanni Andrea Cornia's Lifelong Work on the World Ginis
Lidia Ceriani, Paolo Verme
This paper pays tribute to Professor Giovanni Andrea Cornia's lifelong contributions to the measurement of global inequality. We review twelve world and regional databases of the G…
Predicting Poverty
Paolo Verme
Poverty prediction models are used to address missing data issues in a variety of contexts such as poverty profiling, targeting with proxy-means tests, cross-survey imputations suc…
Optimizing Data-driven Weights In Multidimensional Indexes
Lidia Ceriani, Chiara Gigliarano, Paolo Verme
Multidimensional indexes are ubiquitous, and popular, but present non-negligible normative choices when it comes to attributing weights to their dimensions. This paper provides a m…