Working Paper

We analyse the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning the period 1987/88–2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied...

• Intragenerational mobility
• Welfare dynamics
• Imputation

Working Paper

Standard growth incidence curves describe how growth episodes impact on the overall income distribution. However, measuring the pro-poorness of the growth process is complex due to (i) measurement errors and (ii) effect shocks that may hit the...

• Measurement error
• Shocks
• Pro-poor

Journal Article

Most studies of intergenerational mobility focus on adjacent generations, and there is limited knowledge about multigenerational mobility—status transmission across three generations. We examine multigenerational educational and occupational mobility...

• multigenerational mobility
• Occupational mobility
• Educational mobility

Working Paper

Despite the importance attributed to intergenerational educational mobility in the process of development, there remains little consensus on how mobility should be measured. We present analytical and empirical evidence regarding the sensitivity of...

• Mobility
• Measurement error
• Sample truncation

Working Paper

Most studies of intergenerational mobility focus on adjacent generations, and there is limited knowledge about multigenerational mobility—that is, status transmission across three generations. We examine multigenerational educational and occupational...

• multigenerational mobility
• Occupational mobility
• Educational mobility

Book Chapter

Part of Book Chapter Social mobility in developing countries

• Ethnography
• Inequality
• Migration

Book

• Global south
• Mobility
• Inequality