Measuring Poverty Dynammics and Inequality in Transition Economies : Disentangling Real Events from Noisy Data

The author uses instrumental variable methods, and the decomposition of income into transitory and persistent components to distinguish underlying income inequality and changes in poverty from the effects attributable to measurement error or transi...

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Main Author:	Luttmer, Erzo F.P.
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE INCOMES CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE COUNTRY AVERAGE DATA SETS DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES EARNINGS INEQUALITY EQUIVALENCE SCALE EQUIVALENT INCOME EXPLANATORY POWER GINI COEFFICIENT GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES HIGH COST HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEY HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS HOUSEHOLD SIZE INCOME INCOME INEQUALITY INCOMES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY MEASURES LIVING STANDARD LIVING STANDARDS LOG INCOME MEASURED INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASURING POVERTY MONTHLY EXPENDITURE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION OPPORTUNITY COST POLICY RESEARCH POOR AREAS POOR COUNTRIES POSITIVE CORRELATION POVERTY DYNAMICS POVERTY ESTIMATES POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATE SECTOR PUBLIC EXPENDITURES PUBLIC PROVISION RANDOM WALK RURAL AREAS STANDARD ERRORS STRUCTURAL CHANGE SURVEY DATA TAX SYSTEMS TAXATION TRANSITION ECONOMIES UNDERLYING PROBLEM UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION URBAN AREAS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS VALUATION WAGES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/02/1003132/measuring-poverty-dynammics-inequality-transition-economies-disentangling-real-events-noisy-data http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19701

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/02/1003132/measuring-poverty-dynammics-inequality-transition-economies-disentangling-real-events-noisy-data
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19701

Measuring Poverty Dynammics and Inequality in Transition Economies : Disentangling Real Events from Noisy Data

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