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 related to higher household chronic and transient poverty. In contrast …

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 poverty indicators typically by using Tobit and Probit models. However …