Rural housing quality as an indicator of consumption sustainability

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Indira Rajaraman ()
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Indira Rajaraman: Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi

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Abstract: An exogenously defined poverty line yields poverty headcounts between any two points in time that are a net outcome of hte two-way traffic into and out of poverty. This paper arugues that, for the rural Indian context, where housing is too lumpy and illiquid to be used for consumption smoothing transitions in housing quality in cross sectional data sets can provide revealed evidence of household perceptions of downside risk to their current consumption levels...

Keywords: tracking poverty; rural housing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2011-08
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