Over half the establishments for which reasonably complete data were collected in the 1975 Indonesian Medium and Large Scale Manufacturing Survey did not survive until the 1986 Survey. This paper explores what observed characteristics of these establishments in 1975 predict the duration of...

It is now 16 years since economic reforms were launched in India. The Indian economy has growth remarkably over this period; indeed, in the last decade, it has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The robust growth of the economy has certainly reduced poverty – with...

In this paper, the authors test the hypotheses that family and hired labor are perfect subst itutes in agricultural production in developing countries, and that t here is no quality differential between an hour of family and of hire d labor. Both hypotheses, commonly maintained as assumptions in...

Standard Estimates of the rates of return to primary schooling in most developing countries are high, and have been used to support advocacy of increased investments in primary schooling. But the standard estimates ignore repetition and dropout experience. This paper develops a procedure for...

Considerable uncertainty remains about the human impact of macroeconomic adjustment. Analysis of the impact of adjustment on the poor and on the social sectors is difficult because it involves evaluating a counterfactual situation in which households are affected by prices, incomes, and public...

The World Bank and others maintain that the major mechanism for improving nutrition in poor communities is increases in income. Aggregate estimates of food expenditure are consistent with such a possibility, implying income/expenditure elasticities close to one. However, the high degree of...

Women are thought to be disadvantaged in developing countries. One of the major respects in which they are conjectured to be disadvantaged is that labor-market rewards to their schooling are less than those for males. This study investigates whether there are gender differentials in Indonesian...