Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Cross-Sections

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...

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Main Authors: Dang, Hai-Anh, Lanjouw, Peter
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17919450/measuring-poverty-dynamics-synthetic-panels-based-cross-sections
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15863