Japan's successful industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th century largely exhausted its then abundant natural resources. Rather than exemplifying rapid development in the absence of natural resources, Japan shows how laissez-faire government and successfully transplanted classical...

The way in which economist try to learn about economics responses, such as the effects of children on female labor supply, can be broken down into three steps: the consideration of information already available called a priori information, including inferences based on what economist believe...

When a regression model is estimated using a censored subset of observations, coefficient estimates may be biased. Censored regression models have a long history in biometrics, engineering and other areas of applied statistics. The interest of economists in these models was stimulated by...

Pure cross-sectional model cannot capture the observed continuity over time in the work behavior of wives. Proposed alternative models generally require panel data not available in most countries. We present simulation results for models incorporating more limited information about previous...