Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia by Almas Heshmati Esfandiar Maasoumi & Guanghua Wan

Author:Almas Heshmati, Esfandiar Maasoumi & Guanghua Wan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Singapore

8.3.2 Empirical Model Specification and Strategy

Our quantitative analysis primarily focuses on the relation between either the perceived threat of violence after the peace accord or the past experience of conflict before the peace accord on various livelihood decision-making by households living in the CHT.3 For consumption decisions, an OLS model was used. But for investment in children’s education and production (cropping) decisions, a logit or probit model was specified, as these two cases measure the probability or chance of an event occurring. We control for household demographic and socio-economic characteristics including those for children, type of school, facilities at the school and agricultural techniques.

The standard regression equation followed in this paper is as follows:

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