Theories of poverty traps stand in sharp contrast to the view that anybody can make it through hard work and thrift …. However, empirical detection of poverty traps is complicated by the lack of long panels, measurement error, and attrition …. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can overcome these difficulties, allowing estimation of non-linear income …

Panel data conventionally underpin the analysis of poverty mobility over time. However, such data are not readily … paper proposes a method to construct synthetic panel data from cross sections which can provide point estimates of poverty … mobility. In contrast to traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty …

The paper presents empirical analysis of a panel of countries to estimate an agricultural production function using a … implemented technology is chosen jointly with inputs to interpret information obtained in the empirical analysis of panel data …

productivity effects of land markets on a larger scale. This paper uses a large Indian panel spanning almost 20 years, together …

training. They use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of …

probability of a crisis are of the expected sign. The panel data set covers the time period 1973 through 2003 for 90 countries. …

of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the presence … of measurement error and non-random attrition from the panel. This paper shows that dynamic pseudo-panel methods can be … errors. These methods are applied to data on earnings from a Mexican quarterly rotating panel. Absolute mobility in earnings …

South Sudan. The experience was largely a success. High frequency panel data have been collected on a wide range of topics …