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 …, the education level of the head and the land area cultivated by the household are associated with lower household poverty …

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 …