Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration by comparing the …

This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare …. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, component representing measurement … error or transitory income shocks and an Autoregressive (AR(1)) component representing persistent changes in income. The …

This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health …

The author is concerned with the role of education as a determinant of health care choices. His central premise is that … utilization of health services is determined not solely by an individual's own education, but rather by a notion of effective … education of different household members affects health care choices. He tests these hypotheses on data from Mozambique …

The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various …, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative …

This paper reviews the debate opposing the absolute and relative approaches to monetary poverty measurement. The … arguments for combining both approaches into a single "overall” monetary poverty measure are introduced. The most salient … proposals of hybrid poverty lines are presented. Then, the reasons why specific poverty indices may be required when a hybrid …

The authors provide new evidence on the extent to which absolute poverty has urbanized in the developing world, and the … role that population urbanization has played in overall poverty reduction. They find that one-quarter of the world … helped reduce absolute poverty in the aggregate but did little for urban poverty. Over 1993-2002, the count of the "$1 a day …

This paper contributes to explain the cross-country heterogeneity of the poverty response to changes in economic growth …' wages and, thus, poverty alleviation. Then it presents cross-country empirical evidence that analyzes first, the … differential poverty-reducing impact of sectoral growth at various levels of disaggregation, and the role of unskilled labor …