examine the impact of rural-urban migration on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In … poverty and that non-poor households fall into poverty. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that failure to control for unobserved … into poverty. -- dynamic binary response models ; control function approach ; migration ; poverty-persistence ; rural China …

Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …

on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In this application, it is shown that … migration is important for reducing the likelihood that poor households remain in poverty and that non-poor households fall into … poverty. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that failure to control for unobserved heterogeneity would lead the researcher to …

estimate the entire income distribution; computing alternativeinequality indexes and poverty estimates. Finally, we have used … our broad1y comparabledataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …