PMMA Training Workshop

Colombo, June 11-12, 2005

 

 

Assessment of the Poverty Impact of Public Programs

 

Sami Bibi

Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Tunis

Université de Tunis

 

Dorothée Boccanfuso

Département d'économique

Université Sherbrooke

 

Habiba Djebbari

Département d'économique

Université Laval

 

 Training Material

 

Program

 

List of references (see also: www.pep-net.org, "research groups", "PMMA", "Recommended readings")

 

Key readings

• Van de Walle, Dominique (2003), "Behavioral Incidence Analysis of Public Spending and Social Programs", Chapter 3 of World Bank, Techniques and Tools for Evaluating the Poverty Impact of Economic Policies http://www1.worldbank.org/prem/poverty/psia/tools.htm

• Bibi, S. (2002), "On the Impact of Better Targeted Transfers on Poverty in Tunisia", CIRPEE Working Paper 02-03, Université Laval.

 

Stata Tutorial

 

Stata Guide for Propensity Score Matching (psmatch2)

 

Slides

 

Exercises