examine the impact of rural-urban migration on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In … poverty and that non-poor households fall into poverty. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that failure to control for unobserved … into poverty. -- dynamic binary response models ; control function approach ; migration ; poverty-persistence ; rural China …

This paper decomposes differences in poverty incidence (head count ratio) using estimates from a regression equation … coefficients effects when decomposing differences in poverty incidence. The proposed method is implemented for studying differences … in poverty incidence between Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo using Living Standard Measurement Survey. -- poverty …

Most poverty studies build on measures that take account of recurring incomes from sources such as labour or social … ways. Previous studies that have sought to incorporate assets into poverty measures suggest that (1) poverty estimates … including wealth are considerably lower than income‐based measures; (2) poverty rates of the elderly are more affected than …

reducing the poverty rate by almost one percentage point more, a 75 percent increase over the survey estimate. …

constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of constitutional language of the economic and social rights matter … important results. First, we do not find an association between constitutional rights generally framed and poverty. Second, we … do not find an association between economic and social rights framed as directive principles and poverty. Third, we do …

points in the poverty headcount as well as a decline of 0.32 points in the Gini coefficient. …

from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to … existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take …

economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …