This paper uses four years of panel data on 793 households
\ncollected during 2001\u201311 to measure chronic poverty in rural Cambodia and to
\nidentify its key determinants. A household wealth index\u2014a proxy for long-term
\nwelfare\u2014constructed by polychoric principal component analysis is used as
\nwelfare indicator. Both ordered logistic and multinomial logistic regression models
\nare adopted to identify the causes of chronic and transient poverty by focusing
\nparticularly on five explanatory variables: agricultural land and livestock,
\ndemography, human capital, social capital and natural resources. To ensure the
\nrobustness of our results, two poverty lines are applied: 40th percentile and
\n60th percentile of the wealth index. The findings indicate that households
\nexperiencing chronic poverty account for only 4\u201310 percent of the total sample,
\nwhile transient poverty affects 40\u201352 percent. Among the total poor households,
\ntransient poverty is 84\u201390 percent. Our ordered logistic regression reveals
\nthat the composition of household size, the education of the household head,
\nsocial capital (i.e. connection with three or more people in the community),
\nagricultural land and livestock are likely to be the most important factors
\nthat help the chronically poor to move into better off groups. Common property
\nresources seem to have an opposite effect. Multinomial logistic regression
\nresults reconfirm that household composition, particularly the number of
\nchildren aged 7\u201314 years and females aged 15\u201364 years, the education of the household
\nhead, agricultural land and livestock play an important role in reducing the
\nlikelihood of chronic poverty. It appears that education, agricultural land and
\nlivestock would also help to reduce transient poverty. Social capital is likely
\nto be strongly correlated with both transient poverty and being never poor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This paper uses four years of panel data on 793 households collected during 2001\u201311 to measure chronic poverty in rural Cambodia and to identify its key determinants. A household wealth index\u2014a proxy for long-term welfare\u2014constructed by polychoric principal component analysis is used as welfare indicator. Both ordered logistic and multinomial logistic regression models are adopted to identify the causes of chronic and transient poverty by focusing particularly on five explanatory variables: agricultural land and livestock, demography, human capital, social capital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33099","publications","type-publications","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n