Many key development outcomes depend on women s ability to negotiate favorable
intrahousehold allocations of resources. Yet it has been difficult to clearly identify which …

Over the past 20 years, investment in human resources has taken center stage in the study
of developing economies. A voluminous set of wage function estimates provides the basis …

Abstract The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with
income, both among and within nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of …

Do labor market opportunities for women affect marriage and fertility decisions? We
provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected rural …

We investigate whether experiencing a natural disaster affects risk-taking behavior. We
conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in rural …

The second edition of a comprehensive state-of-the-art graduate level text on
microeconometric methods, substantially revised and updated. The second edition of this …

We examine the prevalence of depressive symptoms among the mid-aged and elderly in
China and examine relationships between depression and current SES factors such as …

Does limited access to formal savings services impede business growth in poor countries?
To shed light on this question, we randomized access to noninterest-bearing bank accounts …

Highlighting the problems posed by a''unitary''conceptualization of the household, a number
of economists have in recent years proposed alternative models. These models, especially …

Between 1973 and 1978, the Indonesian government engaged in one of the largest school
construction programs on record. Combining differences across regions in the number of …