Presently, conditions ensuring the validity of bootstrap methods for sample mean of (possibly heterogeneous) near epoch dependent (NED) functions of mixing processes are known. Here we establish the validity of the bootstrap in this context, extending the applicability of bootstrap methods to a...

In this paper we introduce a class of nonlinear data generating processes (DGPs) that ara first order Markov and can be represented as the sum of a linear plus a bounded nonlinear component.

The quantitative and qualitative approaches to poverty measurement and analysis have often been treated by practitioners as two distinct--even opposing--approaches. This paper highlights the key characteristics of the two approaches, examines the strengths and weaknesses of each, and analyzes...