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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.
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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator
Household food security is an important measure of well-being.
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Early childhood nutrition and academic achievement
Early childhood nutrition is thought to be an important input into subsequent academic achievement.
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Endogeneity of schooling in the wage function
This paper evaluates the effect (in terms of private returns) of investment in education on wages in the rural Philippines.
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Is there an intrahousehold 'flypaper effect'?
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?
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The extended family and intrahousehold allocation
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.