We study the impact of country image on international trade flows. We find that a one percentage point increase in the positive response ratio -- the proportion of people in the importing country who view the exporting country positively -- is associated with at least a one percent increase in...

We investigate how childbirth affects intrahousehold resource allocation for married Japanese couples. We develop reduced-form and structural-form specifications from a unified theoretical framework. Under a weak set of assumptions, we can focus on private goods to track the changes in...

Health and wealth are found positively correlated, but whether the spatial inequality in health and wealth necessarily exhibits a similar pattern is unclear. We apply the small-area estimation technique to the estimation of inequality in consumption poverty and undernutrition. We develop a...