Should we track migrant households when collecting household panel data? Household relocation, economic mobility, and attrition biases in the rural Philippines

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-82

  Fuwa, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

domestic migration; household relocation; panel data analysis; Philippines; poverty dynamics; sample attrition; urbanization

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; HETEROGENEITY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; PANEL DATA; POPULATION MIGRATION; POVERTY DETERMINANT; RELOCATION; RURAL ECONOMY; SAMPLING BIAS; URBANIZATION;

PHILIPPINES;

EID: 79952954615     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aaq114     Document Type: Article

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