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Theses and Dissertations--Economics
Persistence of Income; Childhood Neighborhood; Persistence of Poverty; Chronic Poverty; Growth Regression
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Essays On The Persistence Of Poverty, T M Tonmoy Islam
Essays On The Persistence Of Poverty, T M Tonmoy Islam
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
My dissertation investigates the reasons behind the persistence of income among individuals and US counties. I look at the role of initial conditions in explaining current level of income. In my first essay, I look at how childhood neighborhood conditions affect income of a person. To study persistence, I model income as an autoregressive process where the coefficient on the lagged dependent variable heterogeneous across individuals. In my second essay, I derive a new way to measure chronic poverty, or long term poverty. Current measures of chronic poverty cannot be used to compare improvements of poverty rates over time. Using …