Studies assessing the impact of information on uptake of preventive health products among the poor have shown mixed results, and little is known about what type of messages are most effective.

This paper examines determinants of investments in and returns to training with focus on technical changes and workers' productive endowment, using employee panel data in Thai manufacuring industries.

This paper examines the effects of parents’ schooling on wages and tenure of production workers in manufacturing industries in Thailand, using micro data from a recent employee survey.

"Using detailed trader surveys in Benin, Madagascar, and Malawi, this paper investigates the presence of increasing returns in agricultural trade. After analyzing margins, costs, and value added, we find little evidence of returns to scale.

In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of land leasing that includes transaction costs, risk pooling motives and non-tradable productive inputs, and investigate the empirical implications of land contracts using data collected from four vil