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Using Repeated Cross-Sections to Explore Movements in and out of Poverty

Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to analyze such movements are rare. In this paper, the authors build on the methodology used to construct poverty maps to show how r...

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Main Authors:	Dang, Hai-Anh, Lanjouw, Peter, Luoto, Jill, McKenzie, David
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	AGGREGATE POVERTY AUTOCORRELATION BIASES BOOTSTRAP CALCULATION CHRONIC ILLNESS CHRONIC POVERTY COMPUTATION CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DATA SETS DEGREE OF IMMOBILITY DENSITY FUNCTION DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISADVANTAGED GROUPS DRINKING WATER DUMMY VARIABLES ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMICS EDUCATION LEVEL EMPIRICAL APPLICATION EMPIRICAL SECTION EQUATIONS ERROR TERM ERROR TERMS ESTIMATES OF POVERTY ESTIMATION METHOD ESTIMATION RESULTS ETHNIC MINORITY ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS EXTREME POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY LINES FARMING AREAS FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS FIXED EFFECTS HEALTH OUTCOMES HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD HEADS HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING HUMAN CAPITAL HYPOTHESES IDIOSYNCRATIC SHOCKS INCOME INCOME DYNAMICS INCOME LEVELS INCOME SHOCKS INDEPENDENT VARIABLE INEQUALITY LABOR MARKET MEASUREMENT ERRORS MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY MODEL SPECIFICATIONS NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE NATURAL DISASTERS NEGATIVE SIGN NORMAL DISTRIBUTION POINT ESTIMATE POINT ESTIMATES POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY DYNAMICS POVERTY GAP POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MAP POVERTY MAPPING POVERTY MAPS POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY STATUS POVERTY TRAPS PREDICTION PREDICTIONS PRIMARY EDUCATION PROBABILITIES PROBABILITY RANDOM SAMPLES REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS RELIABILITY RUNNING WATER RURAL RURAL AREA SAFETY NET SAMPLE SIZE SAVINGS SCHOOLING SOCIAL SAFETY NETS STANDARD DEVIATIONS STANDARD ERRORS STATISTICAL INFERENCE STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE THEOREMS TIME SERIES UNEMPLOYMENT VALIDITY
Online Access:	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20120227151946 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3698

Using Repeated Cross-Sections to Explore Movements in and out of Poverty

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