Los determinantes de la pobreza por ingresos en el Ecuador

Abstract

Poverty has several definitions, hence, some divergences related to the methods to measure it. Nevertheless, there is no discrepancy about one thing: poverty is a problematic that needs to be reduced, at least, because the ideal thing, as utopic as it sounds, would be to eradicate it. One way to do this is to come upon with its causes, in order to face them. The present research studies the socioeconomic factors that affect the probability of an Ecuadorian household to fall into income poverty. For this purpose, a probit econometric model is estimated, using National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment (ENEMDU) data from December 2018. This survey is provided by the official statistical agency of Ecuador, the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC). The results indicate that the households with more probability of being poor are the rural ones, the households with a low education level headship, female-headed households, and those households where the headship has an inadequate job.