Little attention has been devoted to the effects of price dispersion at local and seasonal levels on the measurement of living standards in LDCs. In particular, it is not known if a substantial share of welfare or poverty is the consequence of price differences rather than of differences in...

In this paper, we study the return to human capital variables for wages of workers observed in Tunisian matched worker-firm data in 1999. We develop a new method based on multivariate analysis of firm characteristics, which allows us most of the benefits obtained by introducing firm dummies in...

Using data from several seasons in Rwanda, we test the indpendence between Laspeyres local and seasonal price indices and nominal living standards in Rwanda. the results show that the hypothesis of independence cannot generally be rejected in rwanda, although the choice of the adult-equivalence...

In rural areas of LDCs, because of market imperfections, the health and nutritional status of peasants may directly depend on the production levels of specific agricultural goods rather than solely on income levels. We analyse the responses of health and nutritional status of autarkic...

Using panel data from Rwanda, we estimate censored quantile regressions for both household chronic and transient seasonal poverty indices. The estimation results show that the number of children, the age and the minority ethnic group of the head, and the distance to the nearest market are...

Little is known about the correlates of symptoms among ill persons. However, surveys of symptoms among ill persons hold much information that should be of interest for health care management. We propose a new technique based on the consideration of competing scores of symptoms to explain their...

It is crucial for social policy in Less Developed Countries to identify separate correlates for transient poverty and chronic poverty at the household level because seasonal poverty substantially contributes to annual poverty. This has been attempted by estimating household equations for those...