Education and the possibility of being poor in Peru

• Autores: Quiroz Vera, Eduardo Fernando, Espinoza Suárez, José Bernard
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2009
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
• Lenguaje: español; inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:oai:revistas.uni.edu.pe:article/1207
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.uni.edu.pe/index.php/iecos/article/view/1207
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Causalidad pobreza-educación; crecimiento económico y educación; niveles educativos; características de los hogares; Poverty-education causality; economic growth and education; educational levels; household characteristics

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the educational and demographic factors related to the head of household and poverty, and to try to explain the probability of being poor. After an evaluation of cross-tabulations between poverty and literacy, as well as labor, demographic and educational variables, a logit model was applied to evaluate the probability of an individual falling into poverty as a function of household characteristics and the educational levels of the head of household. Finally, the importance of education was evaluated in a more complete frame of reference; according to the conclusions, it is more important to consider all the individuals that make up the household, rather than only the head of household.