A proxy means test for Sri Lanka / Ashwini Sebastian, Shivapragasam Shivakumaran, Ani Rudra Silwal, David Newhouse, Thomas Walker, Nobuo Yoshida
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: World Bank E-Library Archive | Policy research working paper ; 8605Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, Poverty and Equity Global Practice & Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice, October 2018Description: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 33 Seiten) : IllustrationenSubject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: A Proxy Means Test for Sri Lanka. Druck-Ausgabe Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8605Online resources: Summary: This paper intends to inform the effort of the Sri Lankan government to reform the targeting efficacy of its social protection programs, in particular, Samurdhi, which currently distributes benefits based on self-reported income. The paper develops a proxy means test for Sri Lanka based on the Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2016 and evaluates its performance for targeting benefits of Samurdhi. The paper considers a range of models and policy parameters that could be applied depending on data availability and country preferences. The results indicate that switching to a proxy means test could considerably improve the targeting performance of Samurdhi and would significantly improve the poverty impact of the program. The analysis finds that the performance of the proposed proxy means test model suffers when the coefficients are estimated from samples smaller than 1,000 households. However, the analysis does not find a similar loss of model performance when the model is estimated from seasonal data, provided the sample size is sufficiently large. The proposed model could be applied to targeting a variety of safety net programs after validating and refining the model by conducting a pilot surveyPPN: PPN: 1040819478Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBONo physical items for this record
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