Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005

Paola Andrea Barrientos Quiroga (), Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch and Nabanita Datta Gupta
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Paola Andrea Barrientos Quiroga: Aarhus University

No 8929, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy consists of convergence analysis to test whether poor households are catching-up in terms of income, followed by transition analysis to test whether poor households are more likely to exit poverty than to remain poor. The identification strategy explicitly addresses issues pertaining to the potential endogeneity and measurement error of initial income and poverty. We find evidence of income convergence and a higher probability of exiting poverty than of remaining poor. The key variables driving these results are education, occupation and asset ownership.

Keywords: IHDS & HDPI data; measurement error; endogeneity; poverty transition; income convergence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O12 O47 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2015-03
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Published - published in: Indian Economic Journal, 2018, 66 (1-2), 1-24

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