Estimating Poverty for Indigenous Groups in Chile by Matching Census and Survey Data

Claudio Agostini, Phil Brown and Andrei Roman ()

No wp932, William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series from William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Abstract: It is widely held that indigenous Chileans experience greater rates of poverty and indigence than non-indigenous Chileans, yet the evidence to date has been based on surveys that are not representative by ethnicity. In this paper, we use poverty mapping methodologies that are typically applied to geography to develop statistically precise estimates of poverty, indigence, poverty gaps, and indigence gaps for each of the eight indigenous groups recognized by Chilean law. We find that indigenous people experience higher rates of poverty and indigence and greater depth of poverty and indigence than non-indigenous people. These results hold within individual regions, suggesting that the differential access to economic opportunities in different parts of the country cannot fully explain the results. We also find that the burden of poverty is not shared equally across indigenous groups. Instead, the Mapuche and Aymará experience disproportionately high poverty rates. We argue that including ethnicity in criteria for identifying poor households may help policy-makers to improve antipoverty targeting.

Keywords: Poverty; Indigence; Ethnicity; Poverty Mapping; Chile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages
Date: 2008-08-01
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