Measuring Socio-economic Status in the Millennium Villages: The Role of Asset Index Choice

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 917-935

  Michelson, Hope ^a   Muñiz, Maria ^b   DeRosa, Kyle ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; INCOME; PANEL DATA; POVERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VILLAGE;

GHANA; MALAWI; MALI; TANZANIA;

EID: 84880278711     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2013.785525     Document Type: Article

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