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Figure 1: South America, mean values of asset index at the second
administrative level of geography; Data source: Integrated Public Use
Microdata Series (IPUMS) International

Gaps in progress between urban and rural areas are also observed in our
results, similarly to previous research (Sahn and Stifel, 2003). Figure 2
represents the number of people with low and high asset index values in
Paraguay by urban or rural area of residence, where the cutoff values coincide
with the top and bottom groups from the previous figure. Note that rural
population in Paraguay is 31% of total population in 1992 and 29% of total
population in 2002, such that we do not observe a significant increase in
urbanization over a span of 10 years. Figures 2A and 2B represent all rural and
urban population with an asset index value lower than -0.1 in the years of 1992
and 2002, respectively. The rural population is represented with black dots and
the urban population is represented with pink dots, where each dot
corresponds to 20 people. Results show a decrease in the number of both rural
and urban population with an asset index lower than -0.1 between 1992 and
2002. Figure 2C and 2D show the higher cutoff for the asset index, where the
rural population is represented with green dots and the urban population with
blue dots. Figure 2E is a zoomed portion of Figure 2D where we only show the
urban area of Asuncion in Paraguay. The figures show an overall increase in
population in the high asset group over time, which is significantly higher for
people residing in urban areas.

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