Why Do Poverty Rates Differ From Region to Region? The Case of Urban China
Published By: UNU-WIDER on eSS | Published Date: August, 29 , 2005This paper proposes a semi-parametric method for poverty decomposition, which
combines the data-generating procedure of Shorrocks and Wan (2004) with the Shapley
value framework of Shorrocks (1999). Compared with the popular method of Datt and
Ravallion (1992), our method is more robust to misspecification errors, does not require
the predetermination of functional forms, provides better fit to the underlying Lorenz
curve and incorporates the residual term in a rigorous way. [Research Paper No. 2005/56]
Author(s): Guanghua Wan, Yin Zhang | Posted on: Dec 29, 2010 | Views(757) | Download (88)