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Measuring vulnerability to poverty using long-term panel data
Landau, Katja; Klasen, Stephan; Zucchini, Walter - 2012
We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358150
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Measuring vulnerability to poverty using long-term panel data
Landau, Katja; Klasen, Stephan; Zucchini, Walter - 2012
We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290956
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Poverty, social mobility, and the middle class : the case of South Africa
Schotte, Simone - 2018
The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the aim of adding clarity to this debate, this dissertation provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153013
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Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty Using Long-Term Panel Data
Landau, Katja; Klasen, Stephan; Zucchini, Walter - 2012
We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329942
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Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty Using Long-Term Panel Data
Landau, Katja; Klasen, Stephan; Zucchini, Walter - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2012
We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555776
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Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty Using Long-Term Panel Data
Landau, Katja; Klasen, Stephan; Zucchini, Walter - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570414
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A feminization of vulnerability? : female headship, poverty, and vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 71 (2015), pp. 36-53
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432055
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Essays in empirical development and education economics
Lange, Simon - 2015
This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349599
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International income poverty measurement : which way now?
Klasen, Stephan; Krivobokova, Tatyana; Greb, Friederike; … - 2015
poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317789
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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009
Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258036