A Comparison of EPI Sampling, Probability Sampling, and Compact Segment Sampling Methods for Micro and Small Enterprises [0.03%]
企业抽样方法比较研究——以小微企业为例
Li-Wei Chao,Helena Szrek,Karl Peltzer et al.
Li-Wei Chao et al.
Finding an efficient method for sampling micro- and small-enterprises (MSEs) for research and statistical reporting purposes is a challenge in developing countries, where registries of MSEs are often nonexistent or outdated. This lack of a ...
Measuring the Return on Household Enterprise: What Matters Most for Whom? [0.03%]
家庭创业的收益评估——什么因素对谁最重要？
Krislert Samphantharak,Robert M Townsend
Krislert Samphantharak
Return on assets (ROA) from household enterprise is crucial for understanding the well-being and productivity of households in developing economies. Yet the definition and measurement of household enterprise ROA remain inconsistent or uncle...
The Intergenerational Effects of Paternal Migration on Schooling and Work: What Can We Learn from Children's Time Allocations? [0.03%]
父辈迁移对子女教育和工作的影响：我们能从孩子的时间分配中学到什么？
Francisca M Antman
Francisca M Antman
This paper explores the short-run effects of a father's U.S. migration on his children's schooling and work outcomes in Mexico. To get around the endogeneity of paternal migration, I use individual fixed effects and instrumental variables e...
Parental Compensatory Behaviors and Early Child Health Outcomes in Cebu, Philippines() [0.03%]
菲律宾宿务儿童健康结果与父母代偿行为的关系
Haiyong Liu,Thomas Mroz,Linda Adair
Haiyong Liu
A dynamic optimization model of parents choosing investments in their children's health motivates an empirical model of parents' choices of health inputs for their children and the impacts of these decisions on their children's subsequent h...
Susan Godlonton,Rebecca Thornton
Susan Godlonton
How do neighbors positively or negatively influence individuals living in rural Malawi to learn their HIV results? Using data of location of homes and distance to neighbors, we measure the social network effects of neighbors' learning their...
Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa [0.03%]
教育之赌注：南非城市地区的学业进步差异及其种族差距
David Lam,Cally Ardington,Murray Leibbrandt
David Lam
This paper analyzes the large racial differences in progress through secondary school in South Africa. Using recently collected longitudinal data we find that grade advancement is strongly associated with scores on a baseline literacy and n...
Effects of Economic Shocks on Children's Employment and Schooling in Brazil [0.03%]
经济冲击对巴西儿童就业和上学的影响
Suzanne Duryea,David Lam,Deborah Levison
Suzanne Duryea
This paper uses longitudinal employment survey data to analyze the impact of household economic shocks on the schooling and employment transitions of young people in metropolitan Brazil. The paper uses data on over 100,000 children ages 10-...
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...