Poverty Elasticity- a New Empirical Approach

This note proposes a nonparametric estimation method controlled for endogeneity to calculate poverty elasticities for a panel of countries. Results show that usual estimates without control for endogeneity overestimate the growth elasticity of poverty.

MoreLess

Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Figueiredo, Erik Alencar de ; Laurini, Márcio P.
Institutions:	Departamento de Economia, Centro de Ciências Socais Aplicadas

More details

Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Série Textos para Discussão (Working Papers).
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 10
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094602