This paper examines empirically the impact of reproductive externalities on fertility behaviour in one developing society - Kenya. We examine this issue by quantifying the effects of group membership on the number of children ever born. The focus of this study is the identification of structural...

It is by now widely appreciated that institution building is at the heart of the transition process. Without functioning institutions markets cannot work effectively and the sustainability of the economic transition process can be undermined. The crisis in Russia provided just one piece of...

Despite a growing literature in the application of Conditional or Mixed Logit methods to the estimation of labour supply models, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of institutional constraints in employment choices. We argue that the failure adequately to control for...