This study uses Indian unit record data from expenditure and employment surveys, in conjunction with State level indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than other, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host...

When multiple durations are generated by a single unit, they may be related in a way that is not fully captured by the regressors. The omitted unit-specific variables might vary over the durations. They might also be correlated with the variables in the regression compenent. We propose an...

This paper uses unique data from teh 1976-77 and 1988-89 malaysian Family Life Surveys (MFLSs) to address two quations: 1) Are the reported reasons for not initiating breastfeeding or for stopping breastfeeding reliable based in indices of agreement of responses between the two surveys and/or...