Génicot, Garance; Ray, Debraj; Concha-Arriagada, Carolina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This article provides an overview of the literature on mobility in developing countries. Explicit distinctions are … that the scarcity of panel data has hindered the measurement of mobility for many countries. We pay particular attention to … the recent development of panel-free mobility measures, which allows us to measure upward mobility in 122 countries …