Title
Bayesian spatial quantile modeling applied to the incidence of extreme poverty in Lima–Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
Peru is an emerging nation with a nonuniform development where the growth is focused on some specific cities and districts, as a result there is serious economic inequalities across the country. Despite the poverty in Peru has declined in the last decades, there is still poor districts in risk to become extremely poor, even in its capital, Lima. In this context, it is relevant to study the incidence of extreme poverty at district levels. In this paper, we propose to estimate the quantiles of the incidence of extreme poverty of districts in Lima by using spatial quantile models based on the Kumaraswamy distribution and spatial random effects for areal data. Furthermore, in order to deal with spatial confounding random effects we used the Spatial Orthogonal Centroid “K”orrection approach. Bayesian inference for these hierarchical models is conveniently performed based on the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo method. Our modeling is flexible and able to describe the quantiles of incidence of extreme poverty in Lima.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Economía Demografía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85131404093
Source
Computational Statistics
ISSN of the container
09434062
Sponsor(s)
Carlos Garcia would like to thank Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Peru, for the financial support provided through the “Programa de Apoyo a la Investigación para Estudiantes de Posgrado (PAIP)-2019”. Zaida Quiroz would like to thank Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Peru, for the financial support provided through the project DGI-000000000000740. Marcos O. Prates acknowledges partial funding support from Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (CNPq), grants 436948/2018-4 and PQ-307457/2018-4, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).
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