Torche, Florencia; López-Calva, Luis F. - 2012
Using panel datasets from Mexico and Chile for the 2000s, we examine the determinants of middle-class intra … importance of policies that foster human capital and that protect workers from shocks. Rural middle-class households are …-generational mobility. We define the middle class by means of a latent index of economic wellbeing that is less sensitive to short …