Social Affiliation and the Demand for Health Services: Caste and Child Health in South India [0.03%]
社会归属与医疗服务需求——南印度种姓制度与儿童健康的关系
Nancy Luke,Kaivan Munshi
Nancy Luke
This paper assesses the role of social affiliation, measured by caste, in shaping investments in child health. The special setting that we have chosen for the analysis - tea estates in the South Indian High Range - allows us to control nonp...
Guestworker migration, remittances and the extended family: evidence from Pakistan [0.03%]
guestworker移民、汇款和扩大的家庭：来自巴基斯坦的证据
N Ilahi,S Jafarey
N Ilahi
"The paper places migration in the context of the extended family. It models informal loans between migrant and extended family for financing the costs of international labor migration. To show repayments to extended family is important; we...
S Bandyopadhyay,S C Bandyopadhyay
S Bandyopadhyay
"This paper analyzes the supply-side determinants of illegal immigration using a three-sector general equilibrium model of the source country. Agricultural liberalization raises illegal immigration while liberalization of the high tech sect...
The determinants of child mortality in the Philippines: estimation of a structural model [0.03%]
菲律宾儿童死亡率决定因素的结构模型估算
D K Guilkey,R T Riphahn
D K Guilkey
"This paper employs a longitudinal data set from the Philippines to estimate a structural model of the determinants of infant mortality. To control for the endogeneity of some explanatory variables, a set of reduced form equations for these...
A Mountford
A Mountford
"This paper analyzes the interaction between income distribution, human capital accumulation and migration. It shows that when migration is not a certainty, a brain drain may increase average productivity and equality in the source economy ...
Comparing earnings profiles in urban areas of an LDC: rural-to-urban migrants vs. native workers [0.03%]
发展中国家城市地区的收入状况比较：农村移民与本地工人之间的差异
W P Vijverberg,L A Zeager
W P Vijverberg
"We use Tanzanian data to test a recently proposed hypothesis that rural-to-urban migrants have an incentive to supply greater work effort than native urban workers, because of the migrants' positive probability of returning to the low-wage...
Comparative Study
Journal of development economics. 1994 Dec;45(2):177-99. DOI:10.1016/0304-3878(94)90029-9 1994
Population pressure, intensification of agriculture, and rural-urban migration [0.03%]
人口压力、农业集约化和城乡迁移
D Salehi-isfahani
D Salehi-isfahani
"In this paper I provide an analytical basis for why labor absorption [in agriculture] may improve with higher population density. My argument is in two parts. First, analysing agriculture in isolation, I use the Boserup insight to show tha...