Macready & Dayton (1980) showed that state masterymodels are handled optimally within the generallatent class framework for data from a single timepoint. An extension of this idea is presented here forlongitudinal data obtained from repeated measurementsacross time. The static approach is...

If surveys offer two different measurements of household income, one can use them simultaneously to identify the potential effects of measurement error on the observed-income mobility of the poor. In this paper, the authors investigate transition tables between subsequent income states. Latent...