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Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, Jose - 2011
traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty …
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Household Income Mobility in India : 1993-2011
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
households characteristics. We find lower conditional gaps in both upward/downward mobility in rural India for the disadvantaged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980282
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Reducing poverty and hunger in India : the role of agriculture
Ahluwalia, Montek S. - In: Economic developments in India : quarterly update : … 95 (2005), pp. 35-43
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Role and relevance of priority sector lending in a globalised banking scenario
Mujumdar, Narasinh A. - In: Economic developments in India : quarterly update : … 88 (2005), pp. 63-74
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How the data sets stack up : why measuring inequality is not the same as measuring changes in the level of poverty in India
Rangarajan, Chakravarthi; Mahendra Dev, S. - In: Economic developments in India : quarterly update : … (2018) 241, pp. 89-92
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Once Poor, Always Poor? Do Initial Conditions Matter? Evidence from the ECHP
Andriopoulou, Eirini - 2011
The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling … for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 European Countries for the period 1994 … very important policy implications, since if the former is the main cause of poverty it is of paramount importance to break …
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements : A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
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Inequality and Risk Preference
Pickard, Harry; Dohmen, Thomas; van Landeghem, Bert - 2023
This paper studies the relationship between income inequality and risk taking. Increased income inequality is likely to enlarge the scope for upward comparisons and, in the presence of reference-dependent preferences, to increase willingness to take risks. Using a globally representative dataset...
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Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross-Sections
Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter - 2022
multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264703
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Always Poor or Never Poor and Nothing in Between? Duration of Child Poverty in Germany
Fertig, Michael; Tamm, Marcus - 2021
This paper analyses the duration of child poverty in Germany. In our sample, we observe the entire income history from … the individuals' birth to their coming of age at age 18. Therefore we are able to analyze dynamics in and out of poverty … poverty exit and re-entry to be correlated even after controlling for observable characteristics and also account for …
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