Determinants of household income of micro-finance women participants: a quantile regression approach
| Autor: | Jarita Duasa, Nur Hidayah Zainal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050204 development studies
05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Per capita income Discount points Quantile regression Loan 0502 economics and business Value (economics) Economics Household income Demographic economics Asset (economics) Quantile |
| Zdroj: | Ecofeminism and Climate Change. 1:63-74 |
| ISSN: | 2633-4070 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/efcc-03-2020-0002 |
| Popis: | PurposeThe purpose of this study is to adopt quantile regression to investigate the impact of several factors on per capita income of participants of micro-financing scheme (Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia [AIM]), who are mostly women at different point on the income distributions.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses data collected from a survey on respondents who are the participants of AIM program using convenience sampling in Perak and Kelantan.FindingsThe empirical results show that the value of asset, value of loan, household size, ratio of spending to income and dummy state are consistently giving similar impacts on per capita income of participants at different quantiles.Originality/valueHowever, age negatively and significantly affects per capita income only at middle and lower quantiles but not at higher quantile of per capita income. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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