Christoph Lakner

@ChristophLakner

Economist & . Working on poverty, (global) inequality, shared prosperity and top incomes. Tweets are my own.

Washington, DC
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  1. Feb 10

    It’s a beta launch. PLEASE let us know if you find any issues on pip@worldbank.org (and thank you for your patience as we fix them!). In the meantime, continue to use PovcalNet for the official data.

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  2. Feb 10

    Like PovcalNet, you can still compute poverty at any line, it's API-based and we have a Stata command (R coming soon). We added graphs, all underlying code is now available in github, more documentation, added remote execution system where users can run own code on the microdata

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  3. Feb 10

    We just released a *beta* version of the World Bank’s new Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). Will replace PovcalNet and Poverty & Equity Portal in a couple of months.

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  4. Feb 8

    Extreme poverty (at the $1.90 poverty line) for India in 2017 is estimated at 10.4 percent with a confidence interval of [8.1, 11.3]. Across a range of publicly available data sources, we find no evidence of an increase in poverty between 2011/12 and 2017/18.

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  5. Feb 8

    India accounts for an important share of the global extreme poor. Because the latest published official household survey dates back to 2011/12, there is considerable uncertainty about recent poverty trends in the country.

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  6. Feb 8

    We finally published our analysis of poverty in India in 2017/18. We use a range of data sources to come up with an estimate that can be included in the World Bank's global poverty estimates

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    Jan 19

    Looking forward to discussing our findings on the pandemic’s impact on global inequality and poverty. Please join in! Joint with Daniel Mahler &

    📢Registration is now open for the next seminar: 'The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Inequality and Poverty'! With () and chaired by (LSE ) ✏️Register at:
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    Jan 18

    Estimating monetary poverty and inequality for 2020 is a challenge! Especially true in developing countries. We have some evidence from 34 countries using WB’s phone surveys: With , , D Mahler, A Narayan.

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    Jan 18

    The newly published Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report & associated background paper utilize high frequency phone surveys (HFPS) to estimate the impact of on & inequality in 34 countries across five regions. Details in this NEW BLOG:

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    23 Dec 2021

    Hey peeps, take a look at this one 👇

    We are looking for a consultant with strong skills to help us strengthen the open-source code, data, and methodology behind the 's global and inequality monitoring work. If this is you, Apply NOW! Details here:
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    23 Dec 2021

    We are looking for a consultant with strong skills to help us strengthen the open-source code, data, and methodology behind the 's global and inequality monitoring work. If this is you, Apply NOW! Details here:

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    15 Dec 2021

    Capital and labor incomes in the United States have become more closely associated since the 1980s. In the December 2021 Issue by Tony Atkinson and Christoph Lakner ()

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  13. 27 Oct 2021

    Data are from the Global Database on Intergenerational Mobility, covering 97% of the world's population. Paper: Data:

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  14. 27 Oct 2021

    Is there a Kuznets’ curve for intergenerational mobility? We find an inverted U-shape for absolute (kids getting more education than their parents) and a regular U-shape for relative (1-correlation) mobility. with Mahler, , Narayan, Gupta

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  15. 12 Oct 2021

    For the first time in a generation (e.g. see the work by ), we find that between-country inequality is likely to increase.

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  16. 12 Oct 2021

    It’s important to note that this only reflects changes to between-country inequality (around two-thirds of global inequality), while within-country inequality is held constant. Future work will also incorporate changes in within-country inequality.

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  17. 12 Oct 2021

    Here is what happens when you divide the growth incidence curve into quintiles (20% of population each).

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  18. 12 Oct 2021

    Growth incidence curve shows that everyone lost, but the bottom half lost more, especially in 2021 (relative to the no-COVID scenario). Driven by the slower recovery in poorer countries.

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  19. 12 Oct 2021

    New blog on how global inequality is affected by cross-country differences in the macro impact of COVID-19, with and Daniel Mahler.

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    4 Aug 2021

    Capital and labor incomes in the United States have become more closely associated since the 1980s. Just accepted new paper by Tony Atkinson and Christoph Lakner ().

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