This paper validates a recently proposed method to estimate intra-generational mobility through repeated cross-sectional surveys. The technique allows the creation of a "synthetic panel" -- done by predicting future or past household income using a set of simple modeling and error structure assumptions -- and thus permits the estimation of lower and upper bounds on directional mobility measures. The authors validate the approach in three different...
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ПОДРОБНАЯ ИНФОРМАЦИЯ
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2011/12/01
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Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики
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WPS5916
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2011/12/01
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Disclosed
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Intra-generational mobility and repeated cross-sections : a three-country validation exercise
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percentage of households with electricity