Panel data conventionally underpin the analysis of poverty mobility over time. However, such data are not readily available for most developing countries. Far more common are the "snap-shots" of welfare captured by cross-section surveys. This paper proposes a method to construct synthetic panel data from cross sections which can provide point estimates of poverty mobility. In contrast to traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds...
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2013/06/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS6504
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2013/06/01
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Disclosed
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Measuring poverty dynamics with synthetic panels based on cross-sections
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correlation coefficient