This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in … rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this … paper aims to discover whether access to microcredit might increase work by children. It is found that household access to …

household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed …

menstrual cycle are not met because their household has poor access to water. For testing, we use the data from rural villages … in China. Controlling for village fixed effects, poor access to water is found to decrease the probability of wage work … causal impact of poor household access to water for women post-menopause, or for men, ceteris paribus. …

menstrual cycle are not met because their household has poor access to water. For testing, we use the data from rural villages … in China. Controlling for village fixed effects, poor access to water is found to decrease the probability of wage work … causal impact of poor household access to water for women post-menopause, or for men, ceteris paribus. …

This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from …

One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our results suggest that low quantiles are associated with large … this increase was mainly from the higher growth rate of urban household consumption. Our results also suggest that rural …

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China … preferences are more similar the richer the household and the higher the wife's relative income contribution. A couple's joint … decision is typically determined by the husband, but women who contribute relatively more to the household income, women in …

This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the total effects of famine in China on marital behavior of famine …

their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling … compensation. Controlling for unobserved household heterogeneity, planned consumption differences across sons, and a fuller …

longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child …