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Deon Filmer
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 153
Citations - 20059
Deon Filmer is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Population. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 148 publications receiving 18682 citations. Previous affiliations of Deon Filmer include World Bank Group & International Monetary Fund.
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Estimating Wealth Effects without Expenditure Data or Tears: With an Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India
TL;DR: This work estimates the relationship between household wealth and children’s school enrollment in India by constructing a linear index from asset ownership indicators, using principal-components analysis to derive weights, and shows that this index is robust to the assets included, and produces internally coherent results.
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Estimating Wealth Effects Without Expenditure Data—Or Tears: An Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India
Deon Filmer,Lant Pritchett +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a method for estimating the effect of household economic status on educational outcomes without direct survey information on income or expenditures is proposed and defended, which uses an index based on household asset ownership indicators.
World Development Report 2004 : making services work for poor people
Lant Pritchett,Ritva Reinikka,Shantayanan Devarajan,Deon Filmer,Stephen Commins,Jeffrey S. Hammer,Shekhar Shah,Agnès Soucat,Junaid Ahmad +8 more
TL;DR: The World Development Report (WDR) 2004 warns that broad improvements in human welfare will not occur unless poor people receive wider access to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity as mentioned in this paper.
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The effect of household wealth on educational attainment: evidence from 35 countries.
Deon Filmer,Lant Pritchett +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used household survey data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 44 surveys (in 35 countries) to document different patterns in the enrollment and attainment of children from rich and poor households.
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The impact of public spending on health: does money matter?
Deon Filmer,Lant Pritchett +1 more
TL;DR: Cross-national data is used to examine the impact of both public spending on health and non-health factors (economic, educational, cultural) in determining child (under-5) and infant mortality, finding that whereas health spending is not a powerful determinant of mortality, 95% of cross-national variation in mortality can be explained by a country's income per capita.