Poverty Traps and Nonlinear Income Dynamics with Measurement Error and Individual Heterogeneity
Theories of poverty traps stand in sharp contrast to the view that anybody can make it through hard work and thrift. However, empirical detection of poverty traps is complicated by the lack of long panels, measurement error, and attrition. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can overco...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/11/6399313/poverty-traps-nonlinear-income-dynamics-measurement-error-individual-heterogeneity http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8493 |