Showing 1 - 10 of 410
northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161301
, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 per cent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period, and are thus likely to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955462
This paper examines the extent and determinants of structural poverty dynamics in South Africa, focusing on the socio … complex processes, livelihood strategies, and asset dynamics that condition movements int o and out of structural poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137900
over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic element - the risk of falling into (deeper) poverty and the chances of … available National Income Dynamics Study data to provide a thorough and up-to-date analysis of poverty dynamics in South Africa … between 2008 and 2017. This analysis focuses on the correlates of transitions into and out of poverty, and investigates how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987096
intersectionality of caste, religion, and gender identities. Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12, the study finds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427562
The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the … measuring this individual poverty incidence of growth, and show how it relates to existing models. We apply our framework to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003840
estimate bias attributable to intergenerational poverty descents. Using simple experiments and data from India, poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165563
Research on caste-based inequalities in India has generally focused on differences between large categories such as the … inequalities in India by looking within these groupings, and studying differences between the individual jatis that comprise these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491825
to the mean estimates, enabling the assessment of heterogeneity in expected earnings for different social groups in India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265523
We exploit the variation in the admissions process across colleges of a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on: cognitive attainment using scores on standardized university exams; behavioural preferences such as risk, competitiveness, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635655