Cross-section estimates of income elasticities for food staples in the aggregate based on quantity information from household food expenditure surveys are often in the 0.3 0.6 range.

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

The Heckman procedure is used to correct for sample selection bias in estimating wage offer and net labor market supply equations. The findings show that wages are affected by education and experience.

This paper discusses a model of market clearing when prices are rigid. The estimated model is one in which the waiting time necessary to obtain the scarce goods brings the excess demand in line with current supply in a manner of a flexible price.

The main objective is to measure the elasticity in the response of relative wages by education to relative supplies of educated labour"--P. [201].

The static effects on agricultural crop production and income arising from the correction of three common policy biases in developing countries - the underpricing of food, agricultural export taxation, and currency overvaluation - are examined ana

This note reports a modification of one use of the translog production function reported by Binswanger (1973, 1978).