| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Eriksson, Katherine
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| Author's Email Address |
kath722@vt.edu |
| URN |
etd-08282007-121603 |
| Title |
Exploring Changes in Poverty in Zimbabwe between 1995 and 2001 using Parametric and Nonparametric Quantile Regression Decomposition Techniques |
| Degree |
Master of Science |
| Department |
Agricultural and Applied Economics |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Alwang, Jeffrey R. |
Committee Co-Chair |
| Parmeter, Christopher F. |
Committee Co-Chair |
| Taylor, Daniel B. |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- Zimbabwe
- poverty
- decomposition
- nonparametric quantile regression
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| Date of Defense |
2007-08-21 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
This paper applies and extends Machado and Mata's parametric quantile decomposition method and a similar nonparametric technique to explore changes in welfare in Zimbabwe between 1995 and 2001. These methods allow us to construct a counterfactual distribution in order to decompose the shift into the part due to changes in endowments and that due to changes in returns. We examine two subsets of a nationally representative dataset and find that endowments had a positive effect but that returns account for more of the difference. In communal farming areas, the effect of returns was positive while, in urban Harare, it was negative.
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