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The Effects of Parental Death and Chronic Poverty on Children’s Education and Health : Evidence from Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363492
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The Effects of Parental Death and Chronic Poverty on Children’s Education and Health : Evidence from Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363555
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The Nature and Role of the Civil Service in Japanese Government Decision-making
Okubo, Kazumasa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
The nature and the role of the civil service in Japan are sufficiently elusive that analysis of the governmental policy-making process tends to focus on the extremes of party politics or the bureaucratic policy-making process, neither of which, in isolation, can reveal the real decision-making...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365046
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Migration, Policy and Welfare in the Context of Developing Economies : A Simple Extended Family Approach
Hussain, S.M. Turab - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
After giving an overview of the state of migration policy in developing countries with special reference to Pakistan this paper essentially revisits the issue of policy and its effect on rural to urban migration under an extended family theoretical framework. This specific approach is motivated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363491
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International Remittances and Household Expenditures : The Philippine Case
Tabuga, Aubrey D. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper examines the general relationship between remittances and household expenditures in the Philippines by doing a cross-sectional analysis of the 2003 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES). Unlike past research works, it provides a comprehensive overview of the effect of remittance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363577
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Impact of Microfinance on Rural Households in the Philippines
Kondo, Toshio; Aniceto Orbeta Jr.; Dingcong, Clarence; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper reports on the impact evaluation study of the Rural Microenterprise Finance Project (RMFP) in the Philippines. RMFP aimed to support efforts of the Government of the Philippines to strengthen rural financial institutions by assisting organizations that employed the Grameen Bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363603
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Family Business Groups and Tunneling Framework : Application and Evidence from Pakistan
Ikram, Atif; Naqvi, Syed Ali Asjad - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
In Pakistan there is a ubiquity of firms in which there exists a controlling shareholder, usually in the form of the family. By and large this control is maintained via crossshareholding and inter-locked directorships which in turn is facilitated by the pyramidal organization of these firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363746
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The Relationship between Chronic Poverty and Household Dynamics : Evidence from Indonesia
Widyanti, Wenefrida; Suryahadi, Asep; Sumarto, Sudarno; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The composition of households frequently change due to births, deaths, divorces, marriages, the departure of children …, households with a single female without children have the lowest probability of being either chronically poor or vulnerable …, while single male households with or without children have the highest probability of being vulnerable. Frequent changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363791
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Children and Household Savings in the Philippines
Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
survey in the analysis. The results show that, on average, the impact of additional children on household savings is negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365222
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Poverty, Fertility Preferences and Family Planning Practice in the Philippines
Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This paper looks at the interaction of poverty, fertility preferences and family planning practice in the Philippines … running but largely unresolved debate in the country on the relationship between fertility preferences and family planning and … more importantly, a recursive qualitative response model was estimated to identify the determinants of fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365240