World Bank Economists' Forum

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Household Behavior and Health -- Estimating the Extent of Patient Ignorance of the Health Care Market -- Public Transfers and MigrantsÌ Remittances: Evidence from the Recent Armenian Experience -- Part II Communities and Welfare -- Better a Hundred Friends Than a Hundred Rubles? Social Networks in TransitionÛ The Kyrgyz Republic -- An Empirical Investigation of Collective Action Possibilities for Industrial Water Pollution Abatement: Case Study of a Cluster of Small- Scale Industries in India -- Part III Local Governments and Basic Services -- An Assessment of the Impact of Decentralization on the Quality of Education in Chile -- Who Benefits from Increased Access to Public Services at the Local Level? A Marginal Benefit Incidence Analysis for Education and Basic Infrastructure -- Part IV Firms and Governments under Uncertainty -- Contractual Savings, Capital Markets, and Financing Choices of Firms -- Public Expenditures and Risk Reduction.