Talip Kilic
Biographic Data
| ID | 7242249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Talip Kilic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Talip |
| FAMILY NAME | Kilic |
| SIGNATURE | KILIC T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Development Data Group, The World Bank Group, Rome, Italy |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Mismeasure of Weather
The availability of weather data from remotely sensed Earth observation data has reduced the cost of including weather variables in econometric models. Weather variables are common instrumental variables used to predict economic outcomes and serve as an input in modeling crop yields for rainfed agriculture. The use of Earth observation data in econometric applications has only recently been met with critical assessment of the suitability and qual…
Smallholder farming, fertilizer use, and the polycrisis period
Imputing Poverty Indicators without Consumption Data
Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated, or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges, this paper employs survey-to-survey imputation to produce estimates for several poverty indicators, including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption dist…
Breadwinners and caregivers
Gender norms are often emphasized to help explain gender gaps in the labor market. We examine global patterns of gender attitudes and norms toward the stereotypical gender roles of the male breadwinner and female caregiver , and broad support for gender equality in opportunities , and study their relationship with economic behavior. Using data collected via Facebook from 150,000 individuals across 111 countries the paper explores how gender belie…
Using Paradata to Assess Respondent Burden and Interviewer Effects in Household Surveys
Over the past decade, national statistical offices in low- and middle-income countries have increasingly transitioned to computer-assisted personal interviewing and computer-assisted telephone interviewing for the implementation of household surveys. The byproducts of these types of data collection are survey paradata, which can unlock objective, module- and question-specific, actionable insights on respondent burden, survey costs, and interviewe…
Diamonds in the Rough?
Traditional per capita measures of \n poverty assign the same poverty status to individuals living \n in the same household and overlook differences in living \n standards within households. There has been a long-standing \n need for a tool that enables poverty measurement at the \n individual level, while avoiding overly complex estimation \n techniques and, if possible, using readily available \n household survey data. An ordinary least squares…
Under what Conditions are Data Valuable for Development?
Data produced by the public sector \n can have transformational impacts on development outcomes \n through better targeting of resources, improved service \n delivery, cost savings in policy implementation, increased \n accountability, and more. Around the world, the amount of \n data produced by the public sector is increasing at a rapid \n pace, yet their transformational impacts have not been \n realized fully. Why has the full value of these …
Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data
A key challenge with poverty measurement is that household consumption data are often unavailable or infrequently collected or may be incomparable over time. In a development project setting, it is seldom feasible to collect full consumption data for estimating the poverty impacts. While survey-to-survey imputation is a cost-effective approach to address these gaps, its effective use calls for a combination of both ex-ante design choices and ex-p…
Droughts and Floods in Malawi
Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of extreme weather events, increasing the vulnerability of smallholder farmers dependent on rain-fed agriculture. We evaluate the extent to which farmers in Malawi suffer crop production losses due to extreme weather, and whether sustainable land management (SLM) practices help shield crop production losses from extreme events. We use a three period panel dataset where widespread floods and dr…
Droughts and floods in Malawi
Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of extreme weather events, increasing the vulnerability of smallholder farmers dependent on rain-fed agriculture. We evaluate the extent to which farmers in Malawi suffer crop production losses due to extreme weather, and whether sustainable land management (SLM) practices help shield crop production losses from extreme events. We use a three period panel dataset where widespread floods and dr…
Viewpoint
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face survey data collection efforts came to a halt due to lockdowns, limitations on mobility and social distancing requirements. What followed was a surge in phone surveys to fulfill rapidly evolving needs for timely and policy-relevant microdata for understanding the socioeconomic impacts of and responses to the pandemic. Even as the face-to-face survey data collection efforts are resuming in…
Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity
This article analyses the micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity using a two-wave nationally representative, panel data from rural Malawi. Welfare is measured by various dimensions of poverty and food insecurity; and agricultural productivity is measured by maize yield and value of crop output per hectare. The poverty measures included per capita consumption expenditure, relative deprivation in terms of per capita consumption ex…
Assessing the representativeness of a smartphone-based household travel survey in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Costing Household Surveys for Monitoring Progress Toward Ending Extreme Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity
On October 15, 2015, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim announced the World Bank Group’s commitment to support the 78 poorest countries to implement a multi-topic household survey every three years between 2016 and 2030, for monitoring progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. This paper estimates the resource requirements to achieve the objectives of implementing 390 surveys across 78 International Development A…
Same Question but Different Answer
Does the same question asked of the same population yield the same answer in face-to-face interviews when other parts of the questionnaire are altered? If not, what would be the implications for proxy-based poverty measurement? Relying on a randomized household survey experiment implemented in Malawi, this study finds that observationally equivalent as well as same households answer the same questions differently when interviewed with a short que…
Decomposition of gender differentials in agricultural productivity in Ethiopia
A number of studies document gender differentials in agricultural productivity. However, they are limited to region and crop-specific estimates of the mean gender gap. This article improves on previous work in three ways. First, data representative at the national level and for a wide variety of crops is exploited. Second, decomposition methods—traditionally used in the analysis of wage gender gaps—are employed. Third, heterogeneous effects by wo…
Moving Up the Ladder? The Impact of Migration Experience on Occupational Mobility in Albania
The contribution of return migrants to \n economic development in source countries can be significant. \n Overseas savings of returnees may lead to improvements in \n household welfare and provide liquidity for investments in \n the face of credit market failures. Labor market experience \n and skills acquired abroad may also lead migrants to find \n occupations higher in the skill and remuneration spectrum \n upon return. This study uses the 200…
Moving Up The Ladder? The Impact Of Migration Experience On Occupational Mobility In Albania
The contribution of return migrants to economic development in source countries can be significant. Overseas savings of returnees may lead to improvements in household welfare and provide liquidity for investments in the face of credit market failures. Labor market experience and skills acquired abroad may also lead migrants to find occupations higher in the skill and remuneration spectrum upon return. This study uses the 2005 Albanian Living Sta…
Investing Back Home
In view of its increasing importance, and the dearth of information on return migration and its impacts on source households, this study uses data from the 2005 Albania Living Standards Measurement Study survey and assesses the impact of past migration experience of Albanian households on non-farm business ownership through instrumental variables regression techniques. Moreover, considering the differences in earning potentials and opportunities …
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Investing Back Home
In view of its increasing importance, and the dearth of information on return migration and its impacts on source households, this study uses data from the 2005 Albania Living Standards Measurement Study survey and assesses the impact of past migration experience of Albanian households on non-farm business ownership through instrumental variables regression techniques. Moreover, considering the differences in earning potentials and opportunities …
Moving Up The Ladder? The Impact Of Migration Experience On Occupational Mobility In Albania
The contribution of return migrants to economic development in source countries can be significant. Overseas savings of returnees may lead to improvements in household welfare and provide liquidity for investments in the face of credit market failures. Labor market experience and skills acquired abroad may also lead migrants to find occupations higher in the skill and remuneration spectrum upon return. This study uses the 2005 Albanian Living Sta…
Moving Up the Ladder? The Impact of Migration Experience on Occupational Mobility in Albania
The contribution of return migrants to \n economic development in source countries can be significant. \n Overseas savings of returnees may lead to improvements in \n household welfare and provide liquidity for investments in \n the face of credit market failures. Labor market experience \n and skills acquired abroad may also lead migrants to find \n occupations higher in the skill and remuneration spectrum \n upon return. This study uses the 200…
Same Question but Different Answer
Does the same question asked of the same population yield the same answer in face-to-face interviews when other parts of the questionnaire are altered? If not, what would be the implications for proxy-based poverty measurement? Relying on a randomized household survey experiment implemented in Malawi, this study finds that observationally equivalent as well as same households answer the same questions differently when interviewed with a short que…
Decomposition of gender differentials in agricultural productivity in Ethiopia
A number of studies document gender differentials in agricultural productivity. However, they are limited to region and crop-specific estimates of the mean gender gap. This article improves on previous work in three ways. First, data representative at the national level and for a wide variety of crops is exploited. Second, decomposition methods—traditionally used in the analysis of wage gender gaps—are employed. Third, heterogeneous effects by wo…
Costing Household Surveys for Monitoring Progress Toward Ending Extreme Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity
On October 15, 2015, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim announced the World Bank Group’s commitment to support the 78 poorest countries to implement a multi-topic household survey every three years between 2016 and 2030, for monitoring progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. This paper estimates the resource requirements to achieve the objectives of implementing 390 surveys across 78 International Development A…
Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity
This article analyses the micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity using a two-wave nationally representative, panel data from rural Malawi. Welfare is measured by various dimensions of poverty and food insecurity; and agricultural productivity is measured by maize yield and value of crop output per hectare. The poverty measures included per capita consumption expenditure, relative deprivation in terms of per capita consumption ex…
Assessing the representativeness of a smartphone-based household travel survey in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Diamonds in the Rough?
Traditional per capita measures of \n poverty assign the same poverty status to individuals living \n in the same household and overlook differences in living \n standards within households. There has been a long-standing \n need for a tool that enables poverty measurement at the \n individual level, while avoiding overly complex estimation \n techniques and, if possible, using readily available \n household survey data. An ordinary least squares…
Under what Conditions are Data Valuable for Development?
Data produced by the public sector \n can have transformational impacts on development outcomes \n through better targeting of resources, improved service \n delivery, cost savings in policy implementation, increased \n accountability, and more. Around the world, the amount of \n data produced by the public sector is increasing at a rapid \n pace, yet their transformational impacts have not been \n realized fully. Why has the full value of these …
Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data
A key challenge with poverty measurement is that household consumption data are often unavailable or infrequently collected or may be incomparable over time. In a development project setting, it is seldom feasible to collect full consumption data for estimating the poverty impacts. While survey-to-survey imputation is a cost-effective approach to address these gaps, its effective use calls for a combination of both ex-ante design choices and ex-p…
Droughts and Floods in Malawi
Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of extreme weather events, increasing the vulnerability of smallholder farmers dependent on rain-fed agriculture. We evaluate the extent to which farmers in Malawi suffer crop production losses due to extreme weather, and whether sustainable land management (SLM) practices help shield crop production losses from extreme events. We use a three period panel dataset where widespread floods and dr…
Droughts and floods in Malawi
Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of extreme weather events, increasing the vulnerability of smallholder farmers dependent on rain-fed agriculture. We evaluate the extent to which farmers in Malawi suffer crop production losses due to extreme weather, and whether sustainable land management (SLM) practices help shield crop production losses from extreme events. We use a three period panel dataset where widespread floods and dr…
Viewpoint
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face survey data collection efforts came to a halt due to lockdowns, limitations on mobility and social distancing requirements. What followed was a surge in phone surveys to fulfill rapidly evolving needs for timely and policy-relevant microdata for understanding the socioeconomic impacts of and responses to the pandemic. Even as the face-to-face survey data collection efforts are resuming in…
Using Paradata to Assess Respondent Burden and Interviewer Effects in Household Surveys
Over the past decade, national statistical offices in low- and middle-income countries have increasingly transitioned to computer-assisted personal interviewing and computer-assisted telephone interviewing for the implementation of household surveys. The byproducts of these types of data collection are survey paradata, which can unlock objective, module- and question-specific, actionable insights on respondent burden, survey costs, and interviewe…
Imputing Poverty Indicators without Consumption Data
Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated, or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges, this paper employs survey-to-survey imputation to produce estimates for several poverty indicators, including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption dist…
Breadwinners and caregivers
Gender norms are often emphasized to help explain gender gaps in the labor market. We examine global patterns of gender attitudes and norms toward the stereotypical gender roles of the male breadwinner and female caregiver , and broad support for gender equality in opportunities , and study their relationship with economic behavior. Using data collected via Facebook from 150,000 individuals across 111 countries the paper explores how gender belie…
The Mismeasure of Weather
The availability of weather data from remotely sensed Earth observation data has reduced the cost of including weather variables in econometric models. Weather variables are common instrumental variables used to predict economic outcomes and serve as an input in modeling crop yields for rainfed agriculture. The use of Earth observation data in econometric applications has only recently been met with critical assessment of the suitability and qual…
Smallholder farming, fertilizer use, and the polycrisis period
Economics (14 works) · Geography (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (6 works) · Poverty (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works)