Modeling Determinants of Income Poverty and Testing for Constancy on Rates of Return: A case study of Ecuador over the period 2001 to 2012
- Format
- MasterThesis
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
A number of empirical poverty assessments for different countries are based on modeling living standards and poverty. Nevertheless, most of these exercises rely on a single crosssectional survey or across a few years limiting a broader understanding of poverty changes over a longer period of time. In the literature of poverty mapping, assuming constancy for rates of return is an underlying assumption that allows combining survey data and census data to yield predicted poverty rates with representation-by-population. However, there is a lack of theoretical arguments and studies that test the validity of this assumption. This paper uses the case of Ecuador to attempt modeling the household characteristics that determine per capita income and poverty at household-level with data from ENEMDU surveys for the period 2001 to 2012. By using the rates of return inferred from income and poverty models estimates, hypothesis tests for rates of return constancy over time are performed. Moreover, this research presents results of Oaxaca-Blinder type decomposition combined with Shapley average of changes in per capita income and income poverty. The results suggest that the changes of rates of return are significant statistically and quantitatively on explaining income and poverty changes for the case of Ecuador during the last decade.
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- ECONOM?A
ECONOMETR?A
INVESTIGACI?N ECON?MICA
DESIGUALDAD
EST?NDARES DE VIDA
ECUADOR
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License