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Designing Household Survey Questionnaires for Developing Countries : Lessons from 15 Years of the Living Standards Measurement Study, Volume 3
No full textThe objective of this book is to provide
detailed advice on how to design multi-topic household
surveys based on the experience of past household surveys.
The book will help identify define objectives, identify data
needed to analyze objectives, and draft questionnaires to
collect such data. Much of the book is based on the
experience of the World Bank's Living Standard's
Measurement Study (LSMS) program, established in 1980 to
explore ways the accuracy, timeliness, and policy relevance
of household survey data collected in developing countries.
It is part of an attempt to extend the range of policy
issues that can be analyzed with LSMS data; to increase the
reliability and accuracy of the surveys; and to make it
easier to implement LSMS surveys. The books first discuss
the "big picture" concerning the overall design of
surveys, modules to be used, and procedures for combining
modules into questionnaires and questionnaires into surveys.
Individual modules are discussed in depth as well as major
policy issues. The process of manipulating modules to form a
better 'fit' in the case of a specific survey is
examined. Specific modules include: consumption, education,
health employment, anthropometry, non-labor income, housing,
price data, environmental issues, fertility, household
income, savings, household enterprises, and time use. The
third volume provides draft questionnaires, referenced in
the prior chapters
Lessons from 15 Years of the Living Standards Measurement Study, Volume One
Full text linkThe objective of this book is to provide
detailed advice on how to design multi-topic household
surveys based on the experience of past household surveys.
The book will help identify define objectives, identify data
needed to analyze objectives, and draft questionnaires to
collect such data. Much of the book is based on the
experience of the World Bank's Living Standard's
Measurement Study (LSMS) program, established in 1980 to
explore ways the accuracy, timeliness, and policy relevance
of household survey data collected in developing countries.
It is part of an attempt to extend the range of policy
issues that can be analyzed with LSMS data; to increase the
reliability and accuracy of the surveys; and to make it
easier to implement LSMS surveys. The books first discuss
the "big picture" concerning the overall design of
surveys, modules to be used, and procedures for combining
modules into questionnaires and questionnaires into surveys.
Individual modules are discussed in depth as well as major
policy issues. The process of manipulating modules to form a
better 'fit' in the case of a specific survey is
examined. Specific modules include: consumption, education,
health employment, anthropometry, non-labor income, housing,
price data, environmental issues, fertility, household
income, savings, household enterprises, and time use. The
third volume provides draft questionnaires, referenced in
the prior chapters
Designing Household Survey Questionnaires for Developing Countries : Lessons from 15 Years of the Living Standards Measurement Study, Volume 2
No full textThe objective of this book is to provide
detailed advice on how to design multi-topic household
surveys based on the experience of past household surveys.
The book will help identify define objectives, identify data
needed to analyze objectives, and draft questionnaires to
collect such data. Much of the book is based on the
experience of the World Bank's Living Standard's
Measurement Study (LSMS) program, established in 1980 to
explore ways the accuracy, timeliness, and policy relevance
of household survey data collected in developing countries.
It is part of an attempt to extend the range of policy
issues that can be analyzed with LSMS data; to increase the
reliability and accuracy of the surveys; and to make it
easier to implement LSMS surveys. The books first discuss
the "big picture" concerning the overall design of
surveys, modules to be used, and procedures for combining
modules into questionnaires and questionnaires into surveys.
Individual modules are discussed in depth as well as major
policy issues. The process of manipulating modules to form a
better 'fit' in the case of a specific survey is
examined. Specific modules include: consumption, education,
health employment, anthropometry, non-labor income, housing,
price data, environmental issues, fertility, household
income, savings, household enterprises, and time use. The
third volume provides draft questionnaires, referenced in
the prior chapters
Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam
No full textViet Nam is an economic success story -
it transformed itself from a country in the 1980s as one of
the poorest in the world, to a country in the 1990s with one
of the world's highest growth rates. With the adoption
of a new market-oriented policies, Viet Nam averaged an
economic growth rate of 8 percent per year from 1990 to
2000, a growth rate accompanied by a large reduction in
poverty, stemming from significant increases in school
enrollment, and a rapid decrease in child malnutrition. The
book uses an unusually rich set of macroeconomic, and
household survey data, to examine several topics: the causes
of the economic turnaround, and prospects for future growth;
the impact of economic growth on household welfare, as
measured by consumption expenditures, health, education, and
other socioeconomic indicators; and, the nature of poverty
in Viet Nam, and the effectiveness of government policies,
intended to reduce same. Although the country's past
achievements are impressive, future progress is by no means ensured
Targeting assistance to the poor using household survey data
Full text linkIt is important that limited government resources be channeled to the poor, but it is not always easy to identify the poor. Which households should be given tranfers when reliable information on incomes is difficult to obtain? The authors of this paper present a simple method for targeting when income is not observable but other characteristics that are correlated with income can be observed. Using survey data taken from Cote d'Ivoire, they predict incomes based on observable characteristics and distribute transfers on the basis of those predictions. It appears that significant reductions in poverty can be achieved using this method.Environmental Economics&Policies,Rural Poverty Reduction,Services&Transfers to Poor,Safety Nets and Transfers,Poverty Assessment
Replication package for "The Limitations of Activity-Based Instruction to Improve the Productivity of Schooling"
No full text<p>de Barros, A., Fajardo-González, J., Glewwe, P., & Sankar, A. (2023). The Limitations of Activity-Based Instruction to Improve the Productivity of Schooling. <i>The Economic Journal</i>. </p>
The Impact of Income Growth and Provision of Health-Care Services on Child Nutrition in Vietnam
Full text linkVietnam enjoyed rapid economic growth and a sharp reduction in child stunting in the 1990s. Economic growth can increase children's nutritional status in two ways. First, by raising household incomes, which can be used it to purchase more food, medicine and medical services. Second, by raising government revenue, which can be used to improve publicly provided medical services. This paper estimates the impact of household per capita expenditures on children's nutritional status. All the estimation methods used indicate that household income growth explains at best only part of the decrease in child stunting. The paper also examines what aspects of public and private medical services improveme child health.child nutrition and health, economic growth
The Benefits and Costs of Alternative Strategies to Improve Educational Outcomes
Full text linkThis paper reviews the stylized facts regarding the levels of human capital investments and the returns to those investments in developing countries. These returns are substantial and are pervasive across demographic groups. Returns are comparable between men and women and between urban and rural residents. The study shows that 23% of children in developing countries do not complete the fifth grade and of these, 55% started school but dropped out. We argue that eliminating dropouts is the most cost effective way to make progress on the goal of Universal Primary Education. Of the various mechanisms we can use, mechanisms that stimulate schooling demand have the strongest evidence of success to date and are the most cost effective.
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