  Using images containing information on wealth, this research investigates
that pictures are capable of reliably predicting the economic prosperity of
households. Without surveys on wealth-related information and human-made
standard of wealth quality that the traditional wealth-based approach relied
on, this novel approach makes use of only images posted on Dollar Street as
input data on household wealth across 66 countries and predicts the consumption
or income level of each household using the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
method. The best result predicts the log of consumption level with root mean
squared error of 0.66 and R-squared of 0.80 in CNN regression problem. In
addition, this simple model also performs well in classifying extreme poverty
with an accuracy of 0.87 and F-beta score of 0.86. Since the model shows a
higher performance in the extreme poverty classification when I applied the
different threshold of poverty lines to countries by their income group, it is
suggested that the decision of the World Bank to define poverty lines
differently by income group was valid.
