Assessing Asset Indices. Policy Research Working Paper No. 4605

摘要

This paper compares how results using various methods to construct asset indices match results using per capita expenditures. The analysis shows that inferences about inequalities in education, health care use, fertility, child mortality, as well as labor market outcomes are quite robust to the specific economic status measure used. The measuresmost significantly per capita expenditures versus the class of asset indices do not, however, yield identical household rankings.