TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Quiroga, Paola Andrea Barrientos
AU  - Blunch, Niels-Hugo
AU  - Gupta, Nabanita Datta
        TI  - Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005
        PY  - 2015/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8929
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8929
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - IHDS & HDPI data
KW  - measurement error
KW  - endogeneity
KW  - poverty transition
KW  - income convergence
        ER  -