Who Are Poor and Do They Remain Poor?

Geoffrey Ducanes and Edita Tan
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Edita Tan: School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman

No 201408, UP School of Economics Discussion Papers from University of the Philippines School of Economics

Abstract: This paper examines the link between poverty and income, on the one hand, and human capital and location, on the other. In the process, the paper proposes a shift in the household indicator of human capital from the usual education of the household head to the education of the most educated member. The paper finds poverty to be most severe and persistent for households with low human capital, and that the effect of human capital varies substantially across locations. Additionally, the paper finds that low human capital households tend to underinvest in the human capital of school-age members, thus likely perpetuating poverty.

Keywords: human capital; poverty; chronic poverty; regional development; enrolment rates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I32 J24 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2014-06
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Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 2014-08, June 2014

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