Volume 9
Issue 1
Economics
JOURNAL OF
POLISH
AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITIES
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume9/issue1/abs-08.html
DETERMINANTS OF POVERTY IN POLISH FARMERS’ HOUSEHOLDS – BINARY CHOICE MODELS APPROACH
Hanna Dudek
Department of Econometrics and Informatics,
Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland
ABSTRACT
The study investigates relationship between monetary poverty and demographic and socio-economic characteristics of farmers’ households in Poland. The empirical analyses are based on the Household Budget Survey carried out by the Central Statistical Office. In order to indicate the group of high risk of poverty binary choice models are applied. Unlike simple arrangements presented in tables these methods allow estimate of “pure” effects of household attributes. The analysis of determinants of poverty provides meaningful insight into the relevance of various policies, such as the feasibility of using targeting devices.
Key words: poverty, farmers’ households, demographic and socio-economic characteristics, logit and probit model.
Hanna Dudek
Department of Econometrics and Informatics,
Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland
166 Nowoursynowska Street, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
email: dudek@alpha.sggw.waw.pl
Responses to this article, comments are invited and should be submitted within three months of the publication of the article. If accepted for publication, they will be published in the chapter headed 'Discussions' and hyperlinked to the article.