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Identifying the Peruvian poverty profiles: A review of poverty dynamics from 1998 to 2010

Tam Maldonado, Mary Ysabel LU (2012) EKHR92 20121
Department of Economic History
Abstract (Swedish)
Using a relatively extensive panel data set on poverty –from 1998 to 2010– and information on household member characteristics –from 2007 to 2010–, both coming from a sub-sample of the Peruvian Household National Survey, a poverty dynamic analysis was carried out in this study. A spell approach was applied to calculate transient and persistent poverty and an ordered probit model was estimated to identify factors related to both transient and persistent poverty. The analysis performed showed that both the static and the dynamic approach predict a decreasing trend of poverty between 1998 and 2010, however, static approach significantly underestimates the real magnitude of poverty. In contrast to other studies, the multivariate analysis... (More)
Using a relatively extensive panel data set on poverty –from 1998 to 2010– and information on household member characteristics –from 2007 to 2010–, both coming from a sub-sample of the Peruvian Household National Survey, a poverty dynamic analysis was carried out in this study. A spell approach was applied to calculate transient and persistent poverty and an ordered probit model was estimated to identify factors related to both transient and persistent poverty. The analysis performed showed that both the static and the dynamic approach predict a decreasing trend of poverty between 1998 and 2010, however, static approach significantly underestimates the real magnitude of poverty. In contrast to other studies, the multivariate analysis showed that there is no distinction among the explanatory factors of transient and persistent poverty; instead, that a group of them is more strongly associated to transient poverty while the other group is more strongly associated to the persistent poverty. (Less)
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author
Tam Maldonado, Mary Ysabel LU
supervisor
organization
course
EKHR92 20121
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
transient poverty, persistent poverty, Measurement and analysis of poverty
language
English
id
2834914
date added to LUP
2012-08-07 11:58:14
date last changed
2012-08-07 11:58:14
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  abstract     = {{Using a relatively extensive panel data set on poverty –from 1998 to 2010– and information on household member characteristics –from 2007 to 2010–, both coming from a sub-sample of the Peruvian Household National Survey, a poverty dynamic analysis was carried out in this study. A spell approach was applied to calculate transient and persistent poverty and an ordered probit model was estimated to identify factors related to both transient and persistent poverty. The analysis performed showed that both the static and the dynamic approach predict a decreasing trend of poverty between 1998 and 2010, however, static approach significantly underestimates the real magnitude of poverty. In contrast to other studies, the multivariate analysis showed that there is no distinction among the explanatory factors of transient and persistent poverty; instead, that a group of them is more strongly associated to transient poverty while the other group is more strongly associated to the persistent poverty.}},
  author       = {{Tam Maldonado, Mary Ysabel}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Identifying the Peruvian poverty profiles: A review of poverty dynamics from 1998 to 2010}},
  year         = {{2012}},
}