Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China

By Jean-Yves Duclos, Abdelkrim Araar, J. Giles. Social Science Research Network, 2010

157 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate the importance of vulnerability and transient poverty. Third, we apply these tools to the measurement of chronic and transient poverty in China using a rich panel data set that extends over approximately 17 years. We find that alternative measurement techniques yield significantly different estimates of the relative importance of chronic and transient poverty, and that precision of estimates is enhanced with simple statistical corrections.

Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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In Safety Research

1. Yan-sui Liu
2. Yang Zhou
3. Yuanzhi Guo
4. J. Giles
5. Yurui Li
6. Wenxiang Wu

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Yan-sui Liu
2. Dewen Wang
3. Yuanzhi Guo
4. Yang Zhou
5. Changbao Zhao
6. J. Giles
7. Jilai Liu
8. Yurui Li

In Soil Science

1. Yang Zhou
2. Yan-sui Liu
3. Yurui Li
4. Yuanzhi Guo
5. J. Giles

Citations in the corpus

• Can China’s Rural Elderly Count on Support from Adult Children? Implications of Rural-to-Urban Migration (2010, background): “…geography (Jalan and Ravallion, 2002), there are also considerable differences across demographic groups not only in income levels (Chaudhuri and Datt, 2009), but also in the level of coverage by safety nets and in the risks of falling into poverty (Duclos et al, 2010; Jalan and Ravallion, 1999).”
• Targeted poverty alleviation and land policy innovation: Some practice and policy implications from China (2018, background): “…relevant studies mainly focuses on the poverty line (Chen et al., 2013), the types of poverty (Jalan and Ravallion, 2000; Chen and Ravallion, 2007; Duclos et al., 2010; Glauben et al., 2012; Ward, 2016), the causes of poverty (Jalan and Ravallion, 2000; Glauben et al., 2012; Wu et al., 2005),…”
• Spatio-temporal patterns of rural poverty in China and targeted poverty alleviation strategies (2017, background): “, 2013), the types of poverty (Jalan and Ravallion, 2000; Chen and Ravallion, 2007; Duclos et al., 2010; Glauben et al., 2012; Ward, 2016), the causes of poverty (Jalan and Ravallion, 2000; Glauben et al.”