Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92119 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2005-26
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
We pursue an economic approach to analysing poverty. This requires a focus on the variables that individuals can influence, such as forming or dissolving a union or having children. We argue that this indirect approach to modelling poverty is the right way to bring economic tools to bear on the issue. In our implementation of this approach, we focus on endogenous demographic and employment transitions as the driving forces behind changes in poverty. We construct a dataset covering event histories over a long window and estimate five simultaneous hazards with unrestricted correlated heterogeneity. The model fits the demographic and poverty data reasonably well. We investigate the important parameters and processes for differences in individuals poverty likelihood. Employment, and particularly employment of disadvantaged women with children, is important. poverty dynamics; poverty transitions; simultaneous hazards.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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