The Effect of Education and Household Size on Poverty in Urban Areas of Iran (2005 and 2009)

One of the latest issues in the development research is investigation of the poverty causes and alleviation of it. For the poverty alleviation، we have to know about poverty as a phenomena and the factors which affect on it. In this paper after measuring the poverty line by using 50% (average) of expenditure and micro data of Household Income- Expenditure Survey 2005 and 2009، the poor and non-poor households are separated. In order to identify the effective factors and their impact on poverty of Iranian urban households، Logit model is estimated with maximum likelihood approach. The study shows that being in poverty is associated with household size، gender of the head and living in the East، the West، and North of Country. As a result، education، Being breadwinner and living in the south reduce the probability of being poor.