Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 417
Cover Image
Imputing poverty indicators without consumption data : an exploratory analysis
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2024
Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges, we employ survey-to-survey imputation to produce estimates for several poverty indicators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582221
Cover Image
Non-farm diversification, poverty, economic mobility and income inequality : a case study in village India
Himanshu; Lanjouw, Peter; Murgai, Rinku; Stern, Nicholas H. - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009759882
Cover Image
Looking back on two decades of poverty and well-being in India
Narayan, Ambar; Murgai, Rinku - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454048
Cover Image
Welfare dynamics measurement : two definitions of a vulnerability line and their empirical application
Dang, Hai-anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410868
Cover Image
Gender, geography and generations : intergenerational educational mobility in post-reform India
Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009561371
Cover Image
Toward a new definition of shared prosperity : a dynamic perspective from three countries
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011292333
Cover Image
Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter century : poverty, vulnerability, and mobility during 1987‒2012
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2020
This paper analyzes the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning 1987/88-2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240755
Cover Image
Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020
mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of the ability of girls and unfavorable school environment. There is some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241186
Cover Image
Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy : evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Jiang, Yajing; … - 2020
farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Fathers' nonfarm occupation and education were complementary in determining a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257317
Cover Image
Closer, but no cigar : intergenerational mobility across caste groups in India
Sinha, Rishabh - 2018
groups (Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST)) in India with the intergenerational mobility of men outside these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850515