@article{Phimister:284736,
      recid = {284736},
      author = {Phimister, E. and Tefera, T. and Argaw, T. Lemma},
      title = {Persistence in Food Insecurity and Poverty in Ethiopia},
      address = {2018-09-25},
      month = {Sep},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {Using three rounds of data from the Ethiopia Socioeconomic  Survey (ESS), we estimate a series of dynamic random effect  probit models accounting for unobserved heterogeneity and  the initial conditions problem using four measures of food  insecurity and poverty. The descriptive analysis suggest  higher levels of downward mobility and lower rates of exit  for the food insecurity measures relative to food poverty  and general poverty.  There also appear to be lower levels  of persistence in the subjective measure of food insecurity  although for all measures close to the majority of the  sample experience at least one period of food insecurity,  food or general poverty. The estimation results provide  some evidence of persistence or state dependence exists for  subjective food insecurity, food and relative poverty  measures. There is also evidence of cross effects so that  being subjectively food insecure in the past increases the  probability of being food poor and relatively poor in the  current period.  

Keywords: Food insecurity; Poverty;  State dependence; Ethiopia; farm households 
JEL codes I32,  Q12, C23},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/284736},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.284736},
}