Household Poverty Dynamics in Malawi: A Bivariate Probit Analysis

HIV/AIDS, Household Income, and Consumption Dynamics in Malawi

Introduction A survey of recent writings on the interactions between the AIDS epidemic and livelihoods in Africa leaves one with the impression that development practitioners, academics, and even casual observers of developments in Africa are hell-bent on pinning most of Africa's economic stagnation on the AIDS epidemic. This is all the more troubling because, although in the past 15 years econ...

A Bivariate Ordered Probit Estimator with Mixed Effects

In this paper, we discuss the derivation and application of a bivariate ordered probit model with mixed effects. Our approach allows one to estimate the distribution of the effect (gamma) of an endogenous ordered variable on an ordered explanatory variable. By allowing gamma to vary over the population, our estimator offers a more flexible parametric setting to recover the causal effect of an e...

Risk, Risk Management and Vulnerability to Poverty at Household Level in Malawi

Does fertility decrease household consumption? An analysis of poverty dynamics and fertility in Indonesia

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between fertility and poverty for Indonesia, a country which has experienced unprecedented economic growth and sharp fertility decline over recent decades. We illustrate the sensitivity of the effect of fertility on household consumption with respect to the equivalence scale in a unitary household framework. Using the propensity scor...

A Bivariate Ordered Probit Analysis of Public Attitudes on Health Care Policy

This study relies on data collected by the National Elections Studies project at the University of Michigan. Any errors in interpretation or analysis are the responsibility of the authors.