Using data from the 2008 National Demographic and Health Survey, we ask whether women's economic empowerment -defined alternatively as having the ability to decide on (i) daily needs, (ii) major purchases, and (iii) spending own income - protects women against domestic violence. Using a simple...

Most migration studies have used aggregate data to test hypotheses concerning individual migration behavior. This paper attempts to understand migration behavior more directly by analyzing data on individuals and households. The decision to migrate or stay is viewed as influenced by individual...

After its impressive growth in 1960s and 1970s and successful foreign debt management, stabilization and structural adjustment in 1980s, South Korea?s foreign debt crisis in late 1997 was indeed a puzzle. This paper is an attempt to answer this puzzle in Korea?s development experience. First, an...

The Laffer curve showing tax revenue as a function of the tax on the prevailing money wage is derived from the aggregate supply of labor function. Consequently, the possible trade-off between tax revenue and employment (or total output) is considered. Then the tax is shown to result in wage...

Among the East Asian crisis economies, Indonesia has been by far the worst affected. Its economic contraction has been about twice as large as the next most affected economy, Thailand. It is the only crisis economy to experience serious inflation. Its political turmoil and social tension have...

This paper reports on research exploring the relationship between female work participation and fertility in the Philippine setting. One innovation of this research is the collection of household survey data which includes information, unavailable in past Philippine data sets, on the work and...

This study is literally about missing tax revenues. In an environment of declining public school quality and student test scores, classroom, textbook and teacher shortages, inadequate supplies of public health facilities, roads and ports, not to mention shortfalls in tax collections, where did...

One can in principle calculate the impact of a development project on various areas of concern to the policymaker. While some relationships among variables are specific to a particular project, there are also relationships that are common to all projects. A model of a latter would therefore be a...