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Should consumption sub-aggregates be used to measure poverty?
Christiaensen, Luc J.; Ligon, Ethan; Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - 2020
Frequent measurement of poverty is challenging, as measurement often relies on complex and expensive expenditure surveys that try to measure expenditures on a comprehensive consumption aggregate. This paper investigates the use of consumption "sub-aggregates" instead. The use of consumption...
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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 … evidence of pure son preference in rural India. The girls in rural China do not face bias in financial investment by parents … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241186
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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 …
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Should income inequality be reduced and who should benefit? : redistributive preferences in Europe and Central Asia
Cojocaru, Alexandru; Diagne, Mame Fatou - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442350
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Non-farm diversification, poverty, economic mobility and income inequality : a case study in village India
Himanshu; Lanjouw, Peter; Murgai, Rinku; Stern, Nicholas H. - 2013
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Looking back on two decades of poverty and well-being in India
Narayan, Ambar; Murgai, Rinku - 2016
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Welfare dynamics measurement : two definitions of a vulnerability line and their empirical application
Dang, Hai-anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2014
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Gender, geography and generations : intergenerational educational mobility in post-reform India
Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2012
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Toward a new definition of shared prosperity : a dynamic perspective from three countries
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2015
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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...
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