Research Article

Joint Estimation of the Characteristics and Intensity of Poverty in Spain: The Case of Imputed Rent

Table 6

Estimation results for Heckman’s model.

VariableWithout IMRENTWith IMRENTSign

Selection equation
Number of members
Cantabria
Basque Country
Navarre
Madrid
Catalonia
Aragón
Asturias
Balearic Islands
Extremadura
Castilla and León
Castilla-La Mancha
Andalucía
Canary Islands
Murcia
Ceuta and Melilla
Densely populated
Sparsely populated
All nonworking
All working
All unemployed
Man younger than 30
Man older than 65.2749(100.19)−.3210(88.03)(+)/(−)
Woman younger than 30
Woman older than 65.6364(344.16)−.1534(66.19)(+)/(−)
2 adults one of them older than 65
2 adults with children
1 adult with 1 child
House ownership
House with mortgage
Other type of rented house.0836(47.09)−.6043(347.93)(+)/(−)
Constant

Number of members 78.62 146.18
Cantabria
Basque Country 133.06 398.96
Navarre−501.97(41.78)99.20(6.26)(−)/(+)
Madrid−49.01(13.02)653.82(124.04)(−)/(+)
Catalonia−.37.67(11.39)285.38(66.05)(−)/(+)
Aragón 135.60 436.24
Asturias
Balearic Islands 347.56
Extremadura49.64(10.33)−242.30(42.43)(+)/(−)
Castilla and León 160.36 340.25
Castilla-La Mancha
Andalucía
Canary Islands 139.67
Murcia 109.33 429.94
Ceuta and Melilla 724.58 585.40
Densely populated
Sparsely populated
All nonworking
All working−214.82(60.31)30.94(7.64)(−)/(+)
All unemployed 325.87 145.41
Man younger than 30 1373.67 1473.70
Man older than 65−827.46(153.48)92.70(8.89)(−)/(+)
Woman younger than 30 1278.79 1197.24
Woman older than 65
2 adults one of them older than 65
2 adults with children
1 adult 1 child 796.88 117.28
House ownership
House with mortgage
Other type of rented house126.81(38.88)−22.01(6.23)(+)/(−)
Constant 2334.06 3298.26
Wald test χ 2 (29) 333865.82 228470.60
athrho −5890
lnsigma 7.3121 7.4878
Wald test of independent equations ( ) χ 2 (1) = 23.91 76741.79

T-ratios within parenthesis. All the estimates are significant at 99%.