Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/268348 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 1227
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
We examine economic mobility in India while accounting for misclassification to better understand the welfare e§ects of the rise in inequality. To proceed, we extend recently developed methods on the partial identification of transition matrices. Allowing for modest misclassification, we find overall mobility has been remarkably low: at least 65 percent of poor households remained poor or at-risk of being poor between 2005 and 2012. We also find Muslims, lower caste groups, and rural households are in a more disadvantageous position compared to Hindus, upper caste groups, and urban households. These findings cast doubt on the conventional wisdom that marginalized households in India are catching up.
Subjects: 
Mobility
India
Measurement Error
Partial Identification
Poverty
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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