Climbing out of poverty, falling back in: measuring the persistence of poverty over multiple spells.
This paper investigates the persistence of poverty over individuals' lifetimes using a hazard rate approach that accounts for multiple spells of poverty and incorporates spell duration, individual and household characteristics, and unobserved heterogeneity. The findings highlight the importance of c...
| Published in: | Journal of Human Resources Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 557 - 589 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Summer99
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