Paper short abstract:

This paper investigates the dynamics of both monetary and multidimensional child poverty, taking advantage of two recently constructed measure of child deprivation in Tanzania and Malawi, and of the longitudinal nature of the underlying data.

Paper long abstract:

How persistent is monetary poverty, compared to deprivation? There is a growing evidence of the fact that monetary and multidimensional poverty are two sides of the same coin: they are strongly correlated, but don't overlap completely. However, there is little evidence on their respective dynamics. Because of its nature and how it is measured, we expect deprivation to be more persistent, over time, than poverty as measured by income or consumption aggregate. The aim of this paper is therefore to investigate the dynamics of both monetary poverty and deprivation among children in two sub-Saharan countries. Taking advantage of two recently constructed measure of child deprivation in Tanzania and Malawi, and of the longitudinal nature of the underlying data, this work analyses the changes in monetary and multidimensional poverty. Evidence suggests that the persistence of both indicators is quite similar, and that infrastructures and shocks affect the two measure differently, while household characteristics have a more similar impact.