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 …

Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to … analyze such movements are rare. In this paper, the authors build on the methodology used to construct poverty maps to show … how repeated cross-sections of household survey data can allow inferences to be made about movements in and out of poverty …