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Measuring Economic Mobility in India Using Noisy Data: A Partial Identification Approach
Li, Hao; Millimet, Daniel L.; Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2019
We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative … methodology to newly available panel data on household consumption. We find overall mobility has been markedly low: at least 7 out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141142
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Measuring economic mobility in India using noisy data : a partial identification approach
Li, Hao; Millimet, Daniel L.; Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2019
We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative … methodology to newly available panel data on household consumption. We find overall mobility has been markedly low: at least 7 out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057331
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Household Income Mobility in India: 1993-2011
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, we examine the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian … households over 1993-2004 and 2004-2011 (2004-2011). We find mobility estimates that mirror the social hierarchy: Forward Hindu … Caste (FHC) households experienced the highest (lowest) upward (downward) mobility. Considerable gaps between FHC households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584623
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Household Income Mobility in India, 1993-2011
Azam, Mehtabul - 2019
Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, we examine income mobility among rural Indian households over 1993 …-2004 and 2004-2011. We use both absolute and relative measures of mobility. Absolute measures of mobility suggest higher income … mobility during 2004-2011 compared to 1993-2004, and each social group witnessed higher income mobility over 2004-2011 compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903076
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Household income mobility in India : 1993-2011
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, we examine the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian … households over 1993-2004 and 2004-2011 (2004-2011). We find mobility estimates that mirror the social hierarchy: Forward Hindu … Caste (FHC) households experienced the highest (lowest) upward (downward) mobility. Considerable gaps between FHC households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572026
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Household Income Mobility in India : 1993-2011
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, we examine the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian … households over 1993-2004 and 2004-2011 (2004-2011). We find mobility estimates that mirror the social hierarchy: Forward Hindu … Caste (FHC) households experienced the highest (lowest) upward (downward) mobility. Considerable gaps between FHC households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980282
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Mean Consumption, Poverty and Inequality in Rural India in the Sixtieth Round of the National Sample Survey
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Sharma, Anurag - 2014
This paper reports on mean consumption, poverty (all three FGT measures) and inequality during January to June 2004 for rural India using National sample Survey (NSS) data for the 60th Round. Mean consumption at the national level is much higher than the poverty line. However, the Gini...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054979
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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production function include parental background, prior child cognition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558635
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An absolute multidimensional poverty measure in the functioning space (and relative measure in the resource space): An illustration using Indian data
Dotter, Caroline; Klasen, Stephan - 2019
In this paper we develop a multidimensional poverty measure that attempts to capture absolute poverty in the functioning space. As suggested by Sen, if the measure aims to be absolute in the functioning space, it needs to be relative in the resource space. To generate a relative measure, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990061
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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 F. - 2020
, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40–60 percent of the … population transitioning between consumption classes and increasing mobility over time. Yet, the majority of those who escape … less likely to experience downward mobility. We also find that states exhibit heterogenous mobility patterns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210232