This article explores labour market behaviour of members of extended and nuclear households in Suriname. Previous analyses have found that co-operative childcare opportunities within the extended household increase female labour force participation. Such coordination implies correlated...

Stringent environmental taxes in high-income countries are assumed to drive dirty industries to low-income countries, but the empirical evidence for ``pollution havens" is surprisingly weak. We demonstrate that a government trying to prevent flight by a ``dirty" durable good monopolist can...

We employ a new data set from Suriname to estimate private and social returns to technical, vocational and two tracks of general education (mathematics and language). Return estimates are based on gender-specific wage equations, corrected for sample selection bias and adjusted for unemployment....