"With high population density and limited land availability, Vietnam’s Red River Delta is undergoing a major transformation as its economic base moves away from subsistence farming towards intensive, high-value food production for export and local

This paper explores the diversity of the experience of migrants to rural, peri–urban, and urban areas using a unique longitudinal data set from the Philippines.

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

Household food security is an important measure of well-being.

The calorie-income demand elasticity is an important parameter in the development literature and in the policy arena.

Early childhood nutrition is thought to be an important input into subsequent academic achievement.

This paper evaluates the effect (in terms of private returns) of investment in education on wages in the rural Philippines.

Are public transfers targeted toward children largely neutralized by the household, as the theory of altruism implies, or is there an intrahousehold “flypaper effect” whereby such transfers “stick” to the child?

This paper examines the role of the extended family on investments in children, using data from a retrospective survey of three generations in the rural Philippines.