Deon Filmer

Summary

Affiliation: The World Bank
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Assessing asset indices
    Deon Filmer
    Development Research Group, The World Bank, Washington, DC 20433, USA
    Demography 49:359-92. 2012
  2. ncbi Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data--or tears: an application to educational enrollments in states of India
    D Filmer
    Development Research Group, World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA
    Demography 38:115-32. 2001
  3. ncbi Fever and its treatment among the more and less poor in sub-Saharan Africa
    Deon Filmer
    Development Research Group, The World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA
    Health Policy Plan 20:337-46. 2005

Detail Information

Publications3

  1. ncbi Assessing asset indices
    Deon Filmer
    Development Research Group, The World Bank, Washington, DC 20433, USA
    Demography 49:359-92. 2012
    ..In settings in which individually consumed goods are the main component of expenditures, asset indices and per capita consumption yield the least similar results...
  2. ncbi Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data--or tears: an application to educational enrollments in states of India
    D Filmer
    Development Research Group, World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA
    Demography 38:115-32. 2001
    ..On average a "rich" child is 31 percentage points more likely to be enrolled than a "poor" child, but this gap varies from only 4.6 percentage points in Kerala to 38.2 in Uttar Pradesh and 42.6 in Bihar...
  3. ncbi Fever and its treatment among the more and less poor in sub-Saharan Africa
    Deon Filmer
    Development Research Group, The World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA
    Health Policy Plan 20:337-46. 2005
    ..While general results hold for many of the countries, there is sufficient variation across countries that any policy seeking to reform the health sector in order to better cater to the poor needs to be informed by country-specific work...