Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …

, both at the extensive and intensive margins. Using rainfall variations as an instrument for household income in rural … bribes, and (ii) among the bribe payers, the poor pay a higher share of their income. The results indicate that progressivity … regressions show that bribes increase with household income, but the Instrumental Variables estimates suggest that the Ordinary …

The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes …, health care utilization, and non-medical household consumption. The use of panel data collected before and after the … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …

large inequalities in health, are not apparently associated with large inequalities in income, or with small shares of …Inequalities in health have recently started to receive a good deal of attention in the developing world. But how large … inequalities in health across countries. The author explores the reasons for these inter-country differences, and concludes that …

The Millennium Development Goals set quantitative targets for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education … necessary to increase economic growth so as to reduce income poverty, the other by estimating the cost of meeting specific goals … in health, education, and the environment. Both estimates yield a figure in the range of $40-$70 billion in additional …

information for designing poverty-focused interventions. Using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, the author investigates … the determinants of health outcomes in low-income countries both at the national level, and for rural and urban areas …Empirical studies on health at a disaggregate level-by socioeconomic group or geographic location-can provide useful …