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1998: Social Assistance in Albania. Decentralization and Targeted Transfers

Harold Alderman

1998: Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice

Martin Ravallion

1998: The Role of Private Sector in Education in Vietnam. Evidence from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey

Paul Glewwe and Harry Patrinos

1997: Chronic Illness and Retirement in Jamaica

S. Handa and M. Neitzert

1996: Constructing an Indicator of Consumption for the Analysis of Poverty. Principles and Illustrations with Reference to Ecuador

J. Hentschel and Peter Lanjouw

1996: A Manual for Planning and Implementing the Living Standards Measurement Study Survey

M.E. Grosh and J. Munoz

1996: The Contribution of Income Components to Income Inequality in South Africa. A Decomposable Gini Analysis

Murray Leibbrandt, C.D. Woolard and I.D. Woolard

1996: The Contribution of Income Components to Income Inequality in South Africa: A Decomposable Gini Analysis

Murray Leibbrandt, C.D. Woolard and I.D. Woolard

1996: Unconditional Demand for Health Care in Cote d'Ivoire. Does Selection on Health Status Matter?

William Dow

1996: The Demand for Medical Care, Evidence form Urban Areas in Bolivia

M. Li

1996: Comparaisons de la Pauverte. Concepts et methodes

Martin Ravallion

1996: Infrastructure and Poverty in Vietnam

Dominique van de Walle

1995: A Guide to Living Standards Measurement Study Surveys and their Data Sets

M.E. Grosh and Paul Glewwe

1995: Women's Schooling, the Selectivity of Fertility, and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mark Pitt

1995: Proxy Means Tests for Targetting Social Programs. Simulations and Speculation

M.E. Grosh and J.L. Baker

1995: Who is Most Vulnerable to Macroeconomic Shocks? Hypotheses Tests Using Panel Data from Peru

Paul Glewwe and G. Hall

1995: Health Care in Jamaica. Quality, Outcomes, and Labor Supply

Victor Lavy, M. Palumbo and Steven Stern

1995: Changing Patterns of Illiteracy in Morocco: Assement Methods Compared

Victor Lavy, J. Spratt and N. Leboucher

1995: The Quality and Availability of Family Planning Services and Contraceptive Use in Tanzania

Kathleen Beegle

1995: Contraceptive Use in Ghana. The Role of Service Availability, Quality and Price

R. Olivier

1995: The Impact of Female Schooling on Fertility and Contraceptive Use. A Study of Fourteen Sub-Saharan Countries

M. Ainsworth

1995: Contraceptive Choice, Fertility, and Public Policy in Zimbabwe

Duncan Thomas and John Maluccio

1995: Contraceptive Use and the Quality, Price, and Availability of Family Plannong in Nigeria

B.J. Feyisetan and M. Ainsworth

1995: School Quality, Acheivement Bias, and Dropout Behavoiir in Egypt

Eric Hanushek and Victor Lavy

1995: The Impact of the Quality of Health Care on Children's Nutrition and Survival in Ghana

Victor Lavy, John Strauss, Duncan Thomas and P. DeVreyer

1993: Delayed Primary School Enrollment and Childhood Malnutrition in Ghana, an Economic Analysis

Paul Glewwe and Hanan Jacoby

1993: Household Size in Cote d'Ivoire, Simpling Bias in the CILSS

Harold Coulombe and L. Demery

1993: Welfare Implications of Female Headship in Jamaican Households

F. Louat, M.E. Grosh and J. Van Der Gaag

1993: Measurement of Returns to Adult Health; Morbidity Effects on Wage Rates in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana

T. Schultz and Aysıt Tansel

1993: Willingness to Pay for the Quality and Intensity of Midical Care; Low- Income Households in Ghana

Victor Lavy and John Quigley

1992: Investment in Human Capital; Schooling Supply Contraints in Rural Ghana

Victor Lavy

1992: Economic Aspects of Child Fostering in Cote d'Ivoire

Paul Glewwe and H. Jacoby

1992: Estimating the Determinants of Cognitive Achivement in Low-Income Countries

Paul Glewwe and Hanan Jacoby

1992: Measuring the Impact of Fatal Adult Illness in Sub-Saharan Africa; An Annotated Household Questionnaire

M. Ainsworth, G. Koda, G. Lwihula, P. Mujinja, A. Over and I. Semali

1992: Public Policy and Anthropometric Outcomes in Cote d'Ivoire

Duncan Thomas, Victor Lavy and John Strauss

1992: Poverty Comparisons - A Guide to Concepts and Methods

Martin Ravallion

1992: Family Productivity, Labor Supply, and Welfare in a Low- Income Country

J.P. Newman and P.J. Gertler

1992: Poverty and Inequality during Unorthodox Adjustment

Paul Glewwe and G. Hall

1992: Demand Analysis and Tax Reform in Pakistan

Angus Deaton and F. Grimard

1992: Measuring Income from Family Enterprises with Household Surveys

Wim Vijverberg

1991: Growth and Redistribution Components of Changes in Poverty Measures

Martin Ravallion and Gaurav Datt

1991: Does undernutrition respond to incomes and prices? dominance tests for indonesia

Martin Ravallion

1991: Patterns of aging in Thailand and Cote D'Ivoire

Angus Deaton and Christina Paxson

1991: The household surveys as a tool for policy change

M.E. Grosh

1991: Gender differences in household resource allocations

Duncan Thomas

1991: Dual selection criteria with multiple alternatives: migration, work status, and wages

Wim Vijverberg

1991: Workers'benefits from Bolivia's emergency social fund

John Newman, S. Jorgensen and Menno Pradhan

1991: Schooling, skills, and the returns to government investment in education: an exloration using data from Ghana

Paul Glewwe

1991: The Distribution of Welfare in Ghana, 1987-88

Paul Glewwe and K.A. Twum-Baah

1990: The action of human resources and poverty on one another: what we have yet to learn

J.R. Berhman

1990: SHADOW WAGES AND PEASANT FAMILY LABOR SUPPLY; AN ECONOMETRIC APPLICATION TO THE PERUVIAN SIERRA

Hanan Jacoby

1990: THE SSELECTIVITY OF FERTILITY AND THE DETERMINANTS OF HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS: PARAMETRIC AND SEMIPARAMETRIC ESTIMATES

Mark Pitt and M.R. Rosenzwieg

1990: INVESTIGATING THE DETERMINANTS OF HOUSEHOLD WELFARE IN COTE D'IVOIRE

Paul Glewwe

1990: EFFICIENT ALLOCATION OF TRANSFERS TO THE POOR: THE PROBLEM OF UNOBSERVED HOUSEHOLD INCOME

Paul Glewwe

1990: PRICE ELASTICITIES FROM SURVEYS DATA: EXTENSIONS AND INDONESIAN RESULTS

Angus Deaton

1990: THE COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME IN COTE D'IVOIRE

V. Kozel

1990: DOES EDUCATION PAY IN THE LABOR MARKET?: THE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION, OCCUPATION, AND EARNINGS OF PERUVIAN WOMEN

Elizabeth King

1990: TESTING FOR LABOR MARKET DUALITY: THE PRIVATE WAGE SECTOR IN COTE D'IVOIRE

Wim Vijverberg and J. van der Gaag

1990: EDUCATION AND EARNINGS IN PERU'S INFORMAL NONFARM FAMILY ENTERPRISES

P. Moock, P. Musgrove and M. Stelcner

1990: POVERTY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: WITH APPLICATION TO COTE D'IVOIRE

N. Kakwani

1990: TESTING FOR SIGNIFICANCE OF POVERTY DIFFERENCES; WITH APPLICATION TO COTE D'IVOIRE

N. Kakwani

1990: LARGE SAMPLE DISTRIBUTION OF SEVERAL INEQUALITY MEASURES; WITH APPLICATION TO COTE D'IVOIRE

N. Kakwani

1990: CHILD ANTHROPOMETRY IN COTE D'IVOIRE: ESTIMATES FROM TWO SURVEYS, 1985 AND 1986

John Strauss and K. Mehra