This study investigates on Pakistani and South African data gender issues in household behavior.A test for gender bias is proposed and applied.Education spending shows significant bias in favor of boys in Pakistan, though not in South Africa.In contrast,the calorie data shows no such bias in...

This paper provides micro econometric evidence on the factors that influence an individual’s or a firm’s vulnerability to receiving bribe demands. While much of the existing literature on corruption looks at the effect of corruption on macro variables such as growth rates and income...

Economic analysis of household behaviour, usually, assumes that household size and composition are fixed and exogenous. This study departs from this practice by analysing resource and household compositional variables, using an interdependent framework that treats them as jointly endogenous. The...

This paper tests, using data from South Africa and Pakistan, two major implications of the unitary household model, namely, that (a) each individual pools the various components of her/his non-labour earnings, and (b) men and women pool their non-labour earnings between themselves. The study...

This paper extends the collective approach to household behaviour by proposing and estimating a model in which the weights attached to individual members are endogenously determined. The estimation is conducted using two different data-sets from three Indian states. We find that relative...

While the African continent has the highest child labour force participation rates, Asia contains the largest pool of child workers. The nature, magnitude and decline in child labour vary sharply between Asian countries. East Asia now has little child labour; however, child labour continues to...

In this paper we propose a method of estimating multilateral regional price index numbers from a given household level data set on item-wise unit values/prices. The method is closely related to the Country-Product Dummy variable model of Summers (1973). This method is likely to be particularly...

This paper provides evidence showing that the insensitivity of marginal commodity tax reforms to demand specification, observed in recent studies, does not extend to the non-marginal case. The size of the tax change has a sharp impact on commodity tax reforms. In contrast to price effects,...

This paper contributes to the growing literature on spatial prices in large heterogeneous countries. While the literatures on spatial variation and temporal movement in prices have grown in parallel, this study marks a departure by providing a unified treatment and proposing a comprehensive...

Cross country poverty comparisons on unit records have, rarely, involved both developing and developed countries. The present study attempts to fill this gap by comparing poverty across fourteen nations with diverse economic and demographic characteristics and at vastly different stages of...