Il existe peu d'études concernant les conséquences économiques et sociales des envois de fonds des travailleurs migrants sur la pauvreté et l'inégalité de leur pays d'origine jusqu'à récemment, notamment en Haïti. Le montant connu des fonds envoyés en Haïti par la diaspora haïtienne...

Poorly maintained public infrastructure is common in low- and middle-income countries, with consequences for service delivery and public health. By experimentally identifying the impact of incentives for local maintenance for both providers and potential users, this paper provides one of the...

This study examines the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where childhood poverty refers to experience of poverty or poor family background during one's childhood. With the data from Korean Labor Income Panel Study, KLIPS, quantile regression...

This paper formulates a dynamic altruistic model of parental choice of school quality and intergenerational social mobility. It shows that when there are many school qualities, the earnings of children as a function of parental schooling investment is a non-concave function, which leads to...