Impact of Fertility on Objective and Subjective Poverty in Malawi

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dc.creatorMussa, R.
dc.date2012-12-03T12:07:21Z
dc.date2012-12-03T12:07:21Z
dc.date2010-09
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T10:05:09Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T10:05:09Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-28
dc.descriptionThe paper uses data from the Second Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS2) to investigate the impact of fertility on poverty in rural Malawi. We use two measures of poverty; the objective and the subjective. After accounting for endogeneity of fertility by using son preference as an instrumental variable, we find that fertility increases the probability of being objectively poor. This effect is robust for all poverty lines used. It is also robust to accounting for economies of scale and household composition as well as assuming that poverty is continuous. We also find that when fertility is treated as an exogenous variable its impact is underestimated. When poverty is measured subjectively, the results are opposite to those of objective poverty. We find that fertility lowers the likelihood of feeling poor, and that fertility is exogenous with respect to subjective poverty.
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/68
dc.identifier.ris TY - Report DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Impact of Fertility on Objective and Subjective Poverty in Malawi TI - Impact of Fertility on Objective and Subjective Poverty in Malawi UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/68 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/68
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSouthern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.titleImpact of Fertility on Objective and Subjective Poverty in Malawi
dc.typeReport
uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
uct.type.resourceSALDRU Reporten_ZA
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