The author analyses the linkages between the Palestinian employment, unemployment and wages using a theoretical model of the labor market in the West Bank and Gaza and its links to the unskilled labor market in Israel. The model illustrates that the availability of jobs in Israel draws...

The article explores the links between primary schooling in the community and family-building pattern in rural Pakistan using data from Punjab and Northwestern Frontier Province. Both provinces appear to be on the leading edge of the demographic transition in Pakistan: Punjab has the highest...

Village-level factors still play crucial roles in the prosperity of both villages and individual villagers. The article examines processes structuring village socioeconomic inequality in the rural township Ganglong in the southern tip of Tianjin Municipality. Fortuitous constellation of the...

The authors examine the importance of trust in the decision to join groups, the subsquent ability of groups to generate trust and the effect of group membership and trust on a measure of well-being, per capita household income. Trust in local agents is an important determinant of membership in...

The authors use a sector model to investigate the correlation between the average level of human capital and wages and the correlation between wages and the cost of living, as proxied by the price of land. They analyse intra-race and inter-race human capital externalities. One consequence of...

The results suggest that private schools are generally more efficient than public schools in the sense that a student with a given set of personal characteristics who attends a private school would obtain a higher score than he or she would in a public school with the same level of inputs....

The authors analyse the effect of a change in health on the production of farming households in Mali, using a quasi-experimental design and a generalized linear model for longitudinal data. The results demonstrate that the net improvement - due to medical treatment - of family labor productivity...

The authors analyse the correlations between public and private investment and growth in Africa, and present a regression of growth during the years 1970-1997 on the averages of public and private investment to GDP, initial income, and population growth. Higher investment in Africa would not, by...