Migration, poverty, and housing in honduras
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Abstract
Welfare comparisons may be sensitive to the assumptions made about economies
of scale within households. This paper uses recent advances in sequential
stochastic dominance techniques to show how to test for the robustness of poverty
and housing quality comparisons to assumptions about economies of scale.
The method is applied to a comparison of migrant and non-migrant households
in Honduras. While simple comparisons based on per capita income and the
estimated rental value of the dwelling suggest that migrants do better than nonmigrants
for poverty, but worse for housing quality, none of the two groups is
found to dominate the other for reasonable welfare thresholds when assumptions
regarding economies of scale are relaxed.
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URI: https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/127779
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Estudios de economía. Vol.31 No.1 Junio 2004 Pag. 5-20
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