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Title Poverty Persistence and Intra-Household Heterogeneity in Occupations: Evidence from Urban Ehtiopia
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/2077/34643
Date 2013
Author(s) Alem, Yonas
Abstract Previous studies of poverty in developing countries have to a great extent focused on the characteristics of the household head and used these as proxies for the underlying ability of the household to generate income. This paper uses five rounds of panel data to investigate the persistence of poverty in urban Ethiopia with a particular focus on the role of intra-household heterogeneity in occupations. Dynamic probit and system GMM regression results suggest that international remittances and labor market status of non-head household members are important determinants of households' poverty status. Results also show that controlling for these variables and the initial conditions problem encountered in non-linear dynamic probit models reduces the magnitude of estimated poverty persistence significantly for urban Ethiopia. These findings have important implications for identifying the poor and formulating effective poverty reduction and targeting strategies. - JEL Classification: I32, R11, R20
Subject(s) Urban Ethiopia; poverty persistence; dynamic probit; system GMM; labor market status
Language eng
Relation Working Papers in Economics; 580
Type of publication report
Format 33
Identifier 1403-2465
Repository Gothenberg - University of Gothenberg
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