This paper examines the welfare loss of import restrictions on bananas in Australia and whether the import restrictions … banana producers accepting losses in normal years, off-set by large profits in years when cyclones destroy a large proportion … of the banana plants because of sufficiently low elasticity of demand. Using the cyclones of 2006 and 2011 as exogenous …

larger remittance income effects for married men. -- Philippines ; international migration ; remittances ; labor supply …

impacts as well, especially in terms of real wage cuts. -- crises ; Philippines ; women ; labor market …

and a secret saving device on solidarity in risk-sharing groups among rural villagers in the Philippines. Risk is … ; savings ; informal risk sharing ; crowding out ; field lab experiment ; Philippines …

size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in …

disagreement as to the underlying mechanism. Using data from the Philippines for the period 2001-2009, we exploit seasonal … conflict. In the Philippines, above-average rainfall during the wet season is harmful to agricultural production, while above …

We analyze trends in nursing education in the Philippines during a period of rising and falling demand for Philippine … nurses in the developed countries. Based on focus group discussion data obtained in the Philippines, we examine students …

understood. We study a policy discontinuity in the Philippines that resulted in quasi-random assignment of temporary, partial …