00000cab a22000004cb4500 IPP-00000266221 IPP 20180809121701.0 180809s2011 xx d | ||r |||||eng|| eng Mapa, Dennis S. Determinants of poverty in elderly-headed households in the Philippines 2011 This paper looks at the impact of population dynamics on poverty in elderly-headed households in the Philippines using data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) from 2000 to 2006. The population of the elderly, or those 60 years and above, has increased from 3.2 million in 1990 to 4.6 million in 2000. This group is growing at a rate of 3.6% per annum and estimated to reach 7 million in 2010. Data from the FIES shows that the percentage of the elderly who are poor is increasing since 2003. Moreover, the percentage of elderly-headed households has been on the rise since 1997. An ecenometric model based on the logistic regression shows that the presence of a young dependent (aged 14 yaers old or below) increases the probability that the elderly-headed household will become poor by about 9 percentage points, controlling for other factors such as income of household, education, age, and gender of the household head, income transfer from abroad and regional-specific characteristics. The results of the econometric model suggest that the high proportion of young dependents create negative effects on the welfare of the elderly-headed household by increasing the probality of thar household by increasing the probabilty of that household being poor. From the point of viwe policy, addressing the alarming poverty incidence in the country must include measures that will manage the country's bourgeoning population and bring down the fertility rate to a level that is conducive to higher income growth. Poverty Age-structured populations Rural elderly Bersales, Lisa Grace S. Albis, Manuel Leonard F. Daquis, John Carlo P. Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology Vol. 33, no. 1 (Jul. 2011), 218 UPD DMLP Article FI