A Behavior‐Based Approach to the Estimation of Poverty in India

The gold digger and the machine. Evidence on the distributive effect of the artisanal and industrial gold rushes in Burkina Faso

“…Second, we can show that the share of food spending in total consumption is unrelated to artisanal extractive activities. The share of total consumption spent on food is a good indicator of price levels (used to compute both cross-country and within-country price deflators, Almås, 2012;Almås et al, 2018). The share of food spending is likely to be particularly sensitive to prices when the population is closer to subsistence consumption.…”

A Framework for the Simultaneous Measurement of Spatial Variation and Temporal Movement in Prices in a Heterogeneous Country: The Dynamic Household Regional Product Dummy Model

“…Recent examples of studies that investigate the spatial and temporal aspects of price movements in a unified framework include Hill's () study on the European Union and Almas et al . 's () study on India. Hill () proposes “a general taxonomy of panel price index methods” (p. 1379) to compute spatial and temporal price indexes and investigate whether there was convergence in price levels and relative prices across the European Union.…”

“…In contrast, Almas et al . () propose a methodology, that can be implemented on available data sets, for calculating spatial prices in India based on the estimated budget share equation for food specified as a linear function of nominal household expenditure and a set of household specific control variables.…”

“…The present study shares the feature of Almas et al . () in that both studies use as price information the unit values from the household records in India's National Sample Surveys. However, the motivations and methodologies of the two studies are quite different.…”

How Useful is CPI Price Data for Spatial Price Adjustment in Poverty Measurement? : A Case from Ghana

“…Almas, Kjelsrud, and Somanathan (2019) justify this assumption by stating "the evidence on the effect of relative prices on food shares is mixed but most studies find insignificant or small effects." See also a study of the Russian Federation byGibson, Stillman, and Le (2008), which reports similar CPI bias in Engel curve models with and without relative food prices.27 If we simply distinguish price levels between urban and rural sectors (instead of regional levels), then price relatives need to be calculated at the regional level (instead of district levels).…”