This issue includes the following: On analyzing the world distribution of Income, by Anthony B. Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini. Do autocratic states trade less? by Tokes Aidt and Martin Gassebner. Financial...
Little is known in developing country environments about how a child's cognitive skills manifested in the first years of schooling are related to later educational success, because the panel data needed...
This issue includes the following: making conditional cash transfer programs more efficient: designing for maximum effect of the conditionality, by Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. Child labor...
Spatial poverty comparisons are investigated in three African countries using multidimensional indicators of well-being. The work is analogous to the univariate stochastic dominance literature in that...
罗马尼亚的劳动法规定了同工同酬。事实上,在城市和农村的劳动市场中都存在性别歧视。在城市地区,这种劳动性别歧视的情况与西方国家大体相当;而在罗马尼亚农村地区,性别歧视问题要比西方国家严重得多。 Paternostro和Sahn使用了1994年罗马尼亚家庭情况调查的数据, 分析了罗马尼亚的工资决定问题和性别歧视情况。他们使用Heckman选择模型测算了城市和农村地区的男性和女性工资水平,分析了工资待遇方面的性别歧视情况,来解决现有研究方法上的不足。...
Household income and child schooling in Vietnam; by Jere R. Behrman, and James C. Knowles. Benefit incidence, public spending reforms, and the timing of program capture; by Peter Lanjouw, and Martin Ravallion...
This article discusses tax incidence in Madagascar and asks who pays the taxes that finance government spending. Its main concern is to identify the progressivity of different taxes levied in Madagascar...
The direction and level of changes in real incomes brought about by structural adjustment are determined by a variety of factors, including sources of income, patterns of expenditures, and movements in...
Introduction: poverty and adjustment in the 1980s. Poverty in Eastern Europe in the years of crisis, 1978 to 1987: Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. Macroeconomic adjustment and poverty in selected industrial...
In order to explore the causes of malnutrition, this paper estimates reduced-form nutritional status functions that include a linear combination of independent variables, which explain the household's...