"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
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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.
Market institutions
"This paper examines how market institutions can affect links between urban and rural areas with specific emphasis on goods market integration in the national context.Traditionally, development researchers and practitioners have focused either on
Are experience and schooling complementary?
"This paper models the assimilation process of migrants and shows evidence of the complementarity between their destination experience and upon-arrival human capital.
Nonmarket networks among migrants
Dietary diversity as a food security indicator
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 and academic achievement
Early childhood nutrition is thought to be an important input into subsequent academic achievement.
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.
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?
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.