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Income mobility in the developing world: Recent approaches and evidence

Lanjouw, Peter - 2020

evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic … classes by households over time: poverty is not inevitably a chronic condition. However, less clear are the factors driving … northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we …

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Drivers of mobility

Piraino, Patrizio - 2020

Empirical studies in developing countries tend to find higher levels of socioeconomic persistence across generations compared with those of high-income economies. However, there have been relatively few advances in the identification of the drivers of such higher levels of intergenerational...

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Upward Mobility in Developing Countries

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 drawn between directional and non-directional measures, absolute and relative measures, and combinations thereof. We note that the scarcity of panel data has hindered the...

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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

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Converging to Convergence

Kremer, Michael; Willis, Jack; You, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

, including AK models, poverty trap models, and the concept of convergence conditional on determinants of steady-state income. We …

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Supplemental Social Insurance and the Health of the Poor

Taubman, Paul J. - 1983

In 1974 the federal government instituted Supplemental Social Insurance(SSI). The eligible group was the elderly on welfare and disabled individuals.The program distributed extra income and made people eligible for Medicaid in all states except Arizona which did not have Medicaid. We used...

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2009

, the poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024 …

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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007

This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...

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Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2007

modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined in a …

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Globalization and Poverty

Harrison, Ann - 2006

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …

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