Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Due to social norms, each person’s sanitation investment decisions may depend on the decisions of neighbors.

This paper studies the pattern of interregional investment after bureaucratic transfers across Chinese cities.

We examine an indirect but potentially deadly consequence of the “missing girls” phenomenon. A shortage of brides causes many parents with sons of marriageable age to work harder and seek higher-paying but dangerous jobs.

Provision of low-cost credit to the poor through self-help groups (SHGs) has been embraced as a key poverty-reduction strategy in developing countries, but evidence on the impact of this approach is thin.

This paper empirically identifies social learning and neighborhood effects in schooling investments in a new technology regime. Social learning implies that learning is most efficient when observed heterogeneity in schooling is greatest.

"Thailand has experienced economic growth well above world averages from 1960 to the recent crisis.

"This paper models the assimilation process of migrants and shows evidence of the complementarity between their destination experience and upon-arrival human capital.

Three models of credit markets - (1) the permanent income model, (2) upward sloping credit supply to individual borrowers, and (3) constrained credit due to imperfect enforcement - are tested using credit market data and an experimental study of i

The wide range of calorie-income elasticities in the literature results, in large part, from the particular calorie and income variables used for estimation.