Robustness of subjective welfare analysis in a poor developing country: Madagascar 2001
研究了2001年马达加斯加的主观贫困感知与客观贫困指标的关系，通过改进方法计算主观贫困线，发现主观与客观贫困度量结果一致，表明主观分析可用于评估政策干预效果。
Abstract We analyse the subjective perceptions of poverty in Madagascar in 2001 and their relationship to objective poverty indicators. We base our analysis on survey responses to a series of subjective perception questions. We extend the existing empirical methodology for estimating subjective poverty lines on the basis of categorical consumption adequacy questions. Based on this methodology, we calculate the household-specific, subjective poverty lines. We are able to compare between the results of subjective poverty analysis using several types of subjective welfare questions. Our results show that the aggregate poverty measures derived from consumption adequacy questions accord quite well with the poverty measures based on objective poverty lines. We demonstrate that the subjective welfare analysis can be used in poor developing countries for evaluating socio-economic and distributional impacts of various policy interventions.