Philippine households are perennially exposed to natural disasters and calamities, given the country's location in the Pacific Ring of Fire and in the monsoon belt. In addition, they face health, economic, and sociopolitical risks. Using a nationally representative sample of households, we...

The microeconomics of family posits that households value and promote the welfare of their members, but given limited resources, their investments in terms of time and money in their children’s health and education and expenditures on other consumption goods are necessarily jointly determined....

The Local Government Code of 1991 stipulates (1) the devolution of health facilities, functions and personnel from the national government to local government units, and (2) a corresponding increase in central transfers to local government units. However, interjurisdictional spillovers of local...