An Unconditional Quantile Regression Based Decomposition of Spatial Welfare Inequalities in Ghana
Agyire-Tettey, Frank ; Ackah, Charles Godfred and Asuman, Derek LU
(2018)
In Journal of Development Studies
54(3).
p.537-556
- Abstract
Ghana has witnessed tremendous economic growth since the 1990s and attained the Millennium Development Goals target of halving poverty. This notwithstanding, inequality in Ghana increased over the same period, suggesting growth benefits were not equitably distributed. This study provides evidence on the determinants of household consumption expenditure and factors that explain rural-urban welfare gaps between 1998 and 2013. The study employs an unconditional quantile regression and recently proposed decomposition technique based on re-centred influence functions. We find significant spatial differences in consumption expenditure across selected quantiles, with rural-urban inequalities driven largely by differences in returns to... (More)
Ghana has witnessed tremendous economic growth since the 1990s and attained the Millennium Development Goals target of halving poverty. This notwithstanding, inequality in Ghana increased over the same period, suggesting growth benefits were not equitably distributed. This study provides evidence on the determinants of household consumption expenditure and factors that explain rural-urban welfare gaps between 1998 and 2013. The study employs an unconditional quantile regression and recently proposed decomposition technique based on re-centred influence functions. We find significant spatial differences in consumption expenditure across selected quantiles, with rural-urban inequalities driven largely by differences in returns to households’ endowments.
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- author
- Agyire-Tettey, Frank
; Ackah, Charles Godfred
and Asuman, Derek
LU
- publishing date
- 2018-03-04
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Journal of Development Studies
- volume
- 54
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 537 - 556
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85015059822
- ISSN
- 0022-0388
- DOI
- 10.1080/00220388.2017.1296571
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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- 2749789c-ec94-4c9c-8d4b-ef7740f69933
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- 2021-12-07 11:06:58
- date last changed
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