Estudillo, Jonna P.; Mano, Yukichi; Sawada, Yasuyuki; … - In: Philippine Review of Economics 51 (2014) 2, pp. 21-46
This paper explores how migration to local towns, big cities, and overseas has halted the transmission of poverty from parents to children in rural Philippines. Parents’ income has come mainly from agricultural sources while children’s income has come largely from nonfarm sources. Initially,...