Using panel data from Rwanda, we estimate censored quantile regressions for both household chronic and transient seasonal poverty indices. The estimation results show that the number of children, the age and the minority ethnic group of the head, and the distance to the nearest market are...

It is crucial for social policy in Less Developed Countries to identify separate correlates for transient poverty and chronic poverty at the household level because seasonal poverty substantially contributes to annual poverty. This has been attempted by estimating household equations for those...