There is a recent renewal of interest in the relation between shifts in age structures of populations and various economic outcomes. These shifts are triggered by changes in fertility and mortality that take place some years before becoming apparent in the standard age structure and that may...

This paper explores some dimensions of the strength of the association of family background with child schooling and whether the strength of this association is related to some major macro and aggregate school policy variables.

East Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past there decades. This paper compares households saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan).

Following the 1994 financial crisis the rate of saving of the Mexican economy fell from 21.7% to 19.8% of GDP. The decline was associated with a reduction in the rate of external saving from 6.9% to 0.5% between 1994 and 1995. The overall reduction was not more dramatic because it was almost...