Blar i Discussion Papers på forfatter "Mathiassen, Astrid"

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    • A Statistical Model for Simple, Fast and Reliable Measurement of Poverty. A revised version of DP 415 

      Mathiassen, Astrid (Discussion Papers;No. 415, Working paper, 2005)
      Abstract: The primus inter pares of the UN-approved Millennium Development Goals is to reduce poverty. The only internationally accepted method of estimating poverty requires a measurement of total consumption based on ...

    • Agricultural production with uncertain water supply 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Mathiassen, Astrid (Discussion Papers;No. 370, Working paper, 2004)
      Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for analysis of multioutput agricultural production when the supply of water is uncertain. Specifically, we assume that the farmer operates as if the decision ...

    • Challenges in predicting poverty trends using survey to survey imputation. Experiences from Malawi 

      Mathiassen, Astrid; Wold, Bjørn K. Getz (Discussion Paper;No. 900, Working paper, 2019-03-23)
      Poverty in low-income countries is usually measured with large and infrequent household surveys. A challenge is to find methods to measure poverty more frequently. The objective of this study is to test a method for ...

    • Job creation, job destruction and plant turnover in Norwegian manufacturing 

      Klette, Tor Jakob; Mathiassen, Astrid (Discussion papers;136, Working paper, 1995-02)
      The labour market in Norway, as in other Scandinavian countries, is often claimed to be overregulated and incapable of adjustment to changes in job opportunities. The results presented in this paper suggest to the contrary ...

    • Quality adjusted price indexes for discrete goods 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Mathiassen, Astrid; Eriksson, Bengt J. (Discussion Papers;No. 490, Working paper, 2006)
      Abstract: This paper discusses the construction and computation of a quality adjusted price index when the commodities are differentiated products, such as different brands of automobiles and refrigerators. The method ...

    • The predictive ability of poverty models : empirical evidence from Uganda 

      Mathiassen, Astrid (Discussion Papers;No. 560, Working paper, 2008)
      Abstract: This paper examines the performance of a particular method for predicting poverty. The method is a supplement to the approach of measuring poverty through a fully-fledged household expenditure survey. As most ...