Determinants of poverty – binary logit model with interaction terms approach

• Authors: Hanna Dudek , Iga Lisicka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The problem of monetary aspect of welfare in employees’ household was undertaken in this paper. In order to identify the households in danger of poverty, the binary logit models approach was applied. It was found that the estimation of models without the interaction terms results in misspecification error. Due to this, the interaction terms, between the socio-economic factors of households were included in the model. The obtained results can have significant importance in the aspect of social policy in Poland.

Keywords

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poverty; household; logit model; interactions

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Econometrics. Ekonometria. Advances in Applied Data Analytics
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 3(41)
• Pages: 65-77

Contributors

author

Hanna Dudek

• Warsaw University of Life Sciences

author

Iga Lisicka

• Warsaw University of Life Sciences

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