Peter Lanjouw

Biographic Data

ID338227
NAMEPeter Lanjouw
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMELanjouw
SIGNATURELANJOUW P
AFFILIATIONSWorld Bank
ORCID0000-0002-4150-7890
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS63
TOTAL CITATIONS297
AUTHOR COUNT63
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX10

  • (Wl-8179)-Poverty Decline in India after 2011-12

    Himanshu Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw et al.ARTICLEEconomic and political…2025

    The absence of official poverty estimates after 2011-12 has led to a new debate about the recent evolution of poverty in India. This paper reviews the existing estimates of consumption-based poverty after 2011-12. While a wide range of estimates have been put forward, pointing to both rapid and negligible poverty decline, the paper argues that a slowing of poverty reduction after 2011-12 is most likely. A variety of complementary indicators of po…

  • Wl-8164-Prices, Poverty Lines, and Poverty in 2022–23

    Himanshu Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw et al.ARTICLEEconomic and political…2025

    This paper presents initial and partial estimates of poverty from the 2022-23 consumption survey. In the absence of new official poverty lines, the paper updates the official Tendulkar committee poverty lines for 2022-23. It also reports alternative estimates of poverty based on updated Rangarajan committee poverty lines. Preliminary estimates suggest that while poverty has continued to fall post-2011/12, the pace of poverty reduction has slowed …

  • Interactions between sustainable development goals at the district level in Lao PDR

    Open AccessDiana C Garcia Rojas, Jonas L Appelt et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2024Cited by: 1References: 3

    We develop a unique dataset of 3 SDG indicators at district level in Lao PDR. • We find a positive correlation between poverty and stunting in 2005 and in 2015. • We find a negative correlation between these indicators and natural areas. • There are no significant relations between changes in indicators over time. • Variations between districts highlight the need for subnational analyses of SDGs. Monitoring the status and evolution of Sustainable…

  • How accurate is a poverty map based on remote sensing data? An application to Malawi

    Open AccessRoy van der Weide, Brian Blankespoor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2024Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross Sections

    Open AccessHai-Anh Dang, Peter Lanjouw et al.ARTICLEOxford Bulletin of Economics and…2023

    Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo‐panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross‐sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with as few as two survey rounds and produces point estimates of transitions along the welfare distribution at the more disaggregated household level. Validation using Monte Carlo simulations and real cross‐sec…

  • Regional and ethnic inequalities in Malaysian poverty dynamics

    Open AccessGerton Rongen, Zainab Ahmad et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic Inequality2023Cited by: 1References: 5

    This study employs a synthetic panel approach based on nationally-representative micro-level data to track poverty and income mobility in Malaysia in the period 2004–2016. On aggregate we observe large reductions in chronic poverty and increases in persistent economic security, but note that those who remain poor in 2016 are increasingly likely to be poor in a structural sense. Further, we find that poverty and income dynamics differ notably acro…

  • The distributional impact of structural transformation in rural India

    Open AccessChris Elbers, Peter LanjouwARTICLEThe Journal of Economic Inequality2023Cited by: 1References: 1

    The North Indian village of Palanpur has been the subject of close study over a period of six decades from 1957/8 to 2015. Himanshu et al. (2018) document the evolution of the village economy over this period and point to two distinct drivers of growth and distribution of income. An early period of agricultural intensification associated with the green revolution saw an expansion of irrigation and the introduction of new agricultural technologies…

  • The Interplay of Regional and Ethnic Inequalities in Malaysian Poverty Dynamics

    Gerton Rongen, Zainab Ali Ahmad et al.BOOK2022

    This study employs a synthetic panel approach based on nationally representative micro-level data to track poverty and income mobility in Malaysia in 2004–16. On aggregate, there were large reductions in chronic poverty and increases in persistent economic security, but those who remained poor in 2016 were increasingly likely to be poor in a structural sense. Further, the poverty and income dynamics differ notably across geographic dimensions. Su…

  • Income mobility in the developing world

    Himanshu Himanshu, Peter LanjouwBOOKIncome mobility in the developing…2020

    This paper examines income mobility in developing countries. We start by synthesizing findings from the available evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic panels constructed from cross-section data. We echo earlier literature in pointing to substantial movement across income classes by households over time: poverty is not inevitably a chronic condition. However, less…

  • Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter-century

    Hai-Anh Dang, Peter LanjouwBOOKWelfare dynamics in India over a…2018

    We analyse the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning the period 1987/88–2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40–60 per cent of the population transitioning between consumption classes, and increasing mobility over time. Y…

  • How Lives Change

    Himanshu Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw et al.BOOKHow Lives Change2018

    Development economics is about understanding how and why lives and livelihoods change. This book is about economic development in the village of Palanpur, in Moradabad district, Uttar Pradesh, in north India. It draws on seven decades of detailed data collection by a team of dedicated development economists to describe the evolution of Palanpur’s economy, its society, and its politics. The emerging story of integration of the village economy with…

  • Urban poverty across the spectrum of Vietnam’s towns and cities

    Open AccessPeter Lanjouw, Marleen Marra et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2018Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Poverty Dynamics in India between 2004 and 2012

    Hai-Anh Dang, Hai-Anh H Dang et al.ARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…2018Cited by: 2References: 19

    Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004–5, with a marked acceleration between 2009–10 and 2011–12. We employ new statistical methods to convert the three pertinent National Sample Survey rounds into synthetic panels, which help reveal original findings on important aspects of income mobility between 2004–5 and 2011–12. In particular, we document a strong pattern of upward mobility out of poverty, …

  • Vietnam’s Evolving Poverty Index Map

    Open AccessPeter Lanjouw, Marleen Marra et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2016Cited by: 10

  • Poverty Dynamics in India between 2004 and 2012

    Open AccessPeter Lanjouw, Peter F Lanjouw et al.BOOK2015

    Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked acceleration between 2009/10 and 2011/12. This paper enquires into important aspects of income mobility between 2004/05 and 2011/12, based on new statistical methods to convert the three pertinent National Sample Survey rounds into synthetic panels. The analysis draws on the synthetic panels to derive a vulnerability line for India that can…

  • Who Remained in Poverty, Who Moved up, and Who Fell Down? An Investigation of Poverty Dynamics in Senegal in the Late 2000s

    Peter Lanjouw, Peter F Lanjouw et al.BOOK2014

    Poverty estimates based on cross-section data provide static snapshots of poverty rates. Although a time series of cross-section data can offer some insights into poverty trends, it does not allow for an assessment of dynamics at the household level. Such a dynamic perspective on poverty generally calls for panel data and this kind of analysis can usefully inform poverty reduction policy, notably the design of social protection interventions. Abs…

  • Updating Poverty Estimates at Frequent Intervals in the Absence of Consumption Data

    Peter Lanjouw, Peter F Lanjouw et al.BOOK2014

    Obtaining consistent estimates on poverty over time as well as monitoring poverty trends on a timely basis is a priority concern for policy makers. However, these objectives are not readily achieved in practice when household consumption data are neither frequently collected, nor constructed using consistent and transparent criteria. This paper develops a formal framework for survey-to-survey poverty imputation in an attempt to overcome these obs…

  • Estimating poverty transitions using repeated cross-sections

    Open AccessGuillermo Cruces, Peter Lanjouw et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic Inequality2014Cited by: 5References: 1

  • Vietnam's Evolving Poverty Map

    Marleen Marra, Peter Lanjouw et al.BOOK2013

    This paper uses small area estimation techniques to update Vietnam's province and district-level poverty map to 2009. It finds that poverty rates continue to be highest in the northern and central mountainous regions, where ethnic minorities make up a large fraction of the population. Poverty has fallen in most provinces and districts over this decade, but the pace of poverty reduction has been least pronounced in those localities with high initi…

  • Non-Farm Diversification, Poverty, Economic Mobility and Income Inequality

    Open AccessHimanshu Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw et al.BOOK2013

    This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the growing importance, and influence, of the non-farm sector in the rural economy between the early 1980s and late 2000s. The suggestion from the combined National Sample Survey and Palanpur data is of a slow process of non-farm diversification, whose distributional incidence, on the margin, is increasingly pro-poor. The village-level ana…

  • Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Cross-Sections

    Hai-Anh Dang, Peter LanjouwBOOK2013

    Panel data conventionally underpin the analysis of poverty mobility over time. However, such data are not readily available for most developing countries. Far more common are the “snap-shots” of welfare captured by cross-section surveys. This paper proposes a method to construct synthetic panel data from cross sections which can provide point estimates of poverty mobility. In contrast to traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple roun…

  • Using repeated cross-sections to explore movements into and out of poverty

    Open AccessHai-Anh Dang, Peter Lanjouw et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2013Cited by: 14References: 2

  • Small Area Estimation-Based Prediction Methods to Track Poverty

    Open AccessJill Luoto, Jill E Luoto et al.BOOK2011

    Tracking poverty is predicated on the availability of comparable consumption data and reliable price deflators. However, regular series of strictly comparable data are only rarely available. Price deflators are also often missing or disputed. In response, poverty prediction methods that track consumption correlates as opposed to consumption itself have been developed. These methods typically assume that the estimated relation between consumption …

  • Intra-Generational Mobility and Repeated Cross-Sections

    Guillermo Cruces, Peter Lanjouw et al.BOOK2011

    This paper validates a recently proposed method to estimate intra-generational mobility through repeated cross-sectional surveys. The technique allows the creation of a "synthetic panel" -- done by predicting future or past household income using a set of simple modeling and error structure assumptions -- and thus permits the estimation of lower and upper bounds on directional mobility measures. The authors validate the approach in three differen…

  • Small area estimation-based prediction methods to track poverty

    Open AccessLuc Christiaensen, Peter Lanjouw et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic Inequality2011Cited by: 4References: 5