Exploring Changes in Poverty in Zimbabwe between 1995 and 2001 using Parametric and Nonparametric Quantile Regression Decomposition Techniques
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 in...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34826 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08282007-121603/ |