"This paper explores the heterogeneity of the migrant experience using the Bukidnon Panel Survey, which follows up 448 families in rural Mindanao who were first interviewed in 1984-85, as well as their offspring.
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Philippine rice and rural poverty
This paper looks at how Philippine trade reform which consists of tariff reduction and elimination of quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice imports will affect poverty within two world trade scenarios: Doha and free world trade.
Migration and the rural-urban continuum
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.
Doha scenarios, trade reforms, and poverty in the Philippines
The paper examines the possible impact of Doha agreement on Philippine poverty.
Grain marketing parastatals in Asia
Trade reform and poverty in the Philippines
Using a unique longitudinal data set to follow movements across generations, this study explores the nature of the migration experience for rural dwellers in the Philippines.
Is private school premium spurious?
This paper examines schooling investments and the returns in private and public schools in the Philippines, using data from a recent employee survey.
Why do schooling returns differ so much?
This paper examines returns to schooling in Thailand and the Philippines, using recent employee surveys in some manufacturing industries.
Dietary diversity as a food security indicator
Household food security is an important measure of well-being.
Household food security is an important measure of well-being.
Gender differences in land inheritance, schooling, and lifetime income: evidence from the rural Philippines
"This article examines the difference in lifetime incomes arising from parental preferences in the allocation of land inheritance and investments in schooling between sons and daughters in the rural Philippines.