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The Important Role of Equivalence Scales : Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in the Russian Federation / Kseniya Abanokova.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Abanokova, Kseniya.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Equivalence Scale.
- Inequality.
- Panel Survey.
- Poverty Assessment.
- Poverty Dynamics.
- Poverty Line.
- Poverty Lines.
- Poverty Measurement.
- Poverty Monitoring and Analysis.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Local Subjects:
- Equivalence Scale.
- Inequality.
- Panel Survey.
- Poverty Assessment.
- Poverty Dynamics.
- Poverty Line.
- Poverty Lines.
- Poverty Measurement.
- Poverty Monitoring and Analysis.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (55 pages)
- Other Title:
- Important Role of Equivalence Scales
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2020.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian Federation, using equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The analysis suggests that the equivalence scale elasticity is sensitive to household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The study decomposes poverty into chronic and transient components and finds that chronic poverty is positively related to the adult scale parameter. However, chronic poverty is less sensitive to the child scale factor compared with the adult scale factor. Interestingly, the direction of income mobility might change depending on the specific scale parameters that are employed. The results are robust to different measures of chronic poverty, income expectations, reference groups, functional forms, and various other specifications.
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