Davalos, Maria E.Meyer, Moritz2015-02-032015-02-032015-01https://hdl.handle.net/10986/21384During the early 2000s, Moldova experienced strong economic growth and poverty and inequality reductions. This paper aims at uncovering the patterns behind these poverty trends by looking at economic mobility and its associated factors in Moldova. The findings build on the synthetic panel approach and allow for a non-anonymous view of the process of poverty reduction. The data used for this country study on Moldova come from the Household Budget Survey, which is conducted on a yearly basis. The paper presents transition matrices to look at the patterns of economic mobility across selected consumption thresholds, as well as descriptive statistics and a linear probability model aimed at identifying correlates of economic mobility. The findings show that the observed poverty reductions happened with little churning, and highlight the importance of education and employment on upward economic mobility in Moldova in the 2000s, as well as the role of public and private transfers.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONAGRICULTURAL SECTORANNUAL GROWTHANNUAL GROWTH RATEAVERAGE GROWTHBASIC EDUCATIONCAPITAL ACCUMULATIONCHANGES IN POVERTYCHRONIC POVERTYCONSUMPTION AGGREGATECONSUMPTION GROWTHCONSUMPTION MEASURECONSUMPTION POVERTYDATA AVAILABILITYDECLINE IN POVERTYDEPENDENT VARIABLEDESCRIPTIONDESCRIPTIVE STATISTICSDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICSDEVELOPMENT POLICYDIFFERENT REGIONDISAGGREGATED LEVELDISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGESDROUGHTECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTECONOMIC DOWNTURNSECONOMIC GROWTHEDUCATION LEVELEDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTEMPIRICAL MODELERROR TERMERROR TERMSESTIMATED COEFFICIENTSESTIMATION RESULTSESTIMATION TECHNIQUESEXPLANATORY VARIABLESEXTREME POVERTYEXTREME POVERTY LINEFEMALEFEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLDSFEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDSFINANCIAL CRISISFIXED EFFECTSGENDERGINI COEFFICIENTGROWTH PROCESSGROWTH RATEGROWTH RATESHEALTH EXPENDITURESHOUSEHOLD BUDGETHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTIONHOUSEHOLD DEMOGRAPHICSHOUSEHOLD HEADHOUSEHOLD HEADSHOUSEHOLD SIZEHOUSINGHUMAN CAPITALIDIOSYNCRATIC SHOCKSINCOMEINCOME GROWTHINDEPENDENT VARIABLESINEQUALITYLABOR FORCELABOR MARKETSLABOR MOBILITYLIVING STANDARDSMACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENTMEAN GROWTHMEASURING POVERTYMOBILITYNATIONAL POVERTYNATIONAL POVERTY LINENEGATIVE IMPACTNON-POOR HOUSEHOLDSPER CAPITA GROWTHPOINT ESTIMATESPOLICY AREASPOLICY DISCUSSIONPOLICY IMPLICATIONSPOLICY MAKERSPOLICY PERSPECTIVEPOLICY RESEARCHPOLITICAL INSTABILITYPOORPOOR HOUSEHOLDSPOVERTY CHANGESPOVERTY DYNAMICSPOVERTY FOCUSPOVERTY LINEPOVERTY MEASURESPOVERTY RATESPOVERTY REDUCTIONPOVERTY SERIESPOVERTY THRESHOLDPRIMARY EDUCATIONPRIVATE TRANSFERSPRO-POORREDUCED POVERTYREDUCING POVERTYREDUCTION IN POVERTYREGIONAL ANALYSISREGIONAL CHARACTERISTICSREGIONAL LEVELREGIONAL POVERTYREGIONAL POVERTY LINERURALRURAL AREASRURAL GROWTHRURAL HOUSEHOLDRURAL HOUSEHOLDSRURAL LABORRURAL LABOR MARKETRURAL PHENOMENONRURAL POVERTYSECTORAL COMPOSITIONSIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONSIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONSSOCIAL PROTECTIONSTANDARD DEVIATIONUNEMPLOYMENTURBAN AREASURBAN GROWTHURBAN POVERTYWAGE EMPLOYMENTWELFARE DISTRIBUTION10.1596/1813-9450-7167