This paper studies the vulnerability of Filipino households to employment shocks that were brought on by the Asian financial crisis and the El Niño dry spells of 1997 and 1998. Using a panel data set of households culled from eight consecutive quarters of the Labor Force Surveys and the 1997...

Why has the living standard of the Philippines relative to that of the United States not risen unlike its Asian neighbors? Applying a simple neoclassical model and some empirical methods of analysis employed in growth economics on data on national income accounts and the workforce from the Penn...

We propose a theoretically consistent method for calibrating input (and output) price elasticities (of agricultural crops) from a minimal set of given estimates. Our review of production theory suggests three starting points for the exercise : (a) inputs and outputs have to be classified by...

In order to measure the intrinsic effect of schooling on wages for adolescents and young adults from four villages in Rural Guatemala, this paper estimates different wage speci?cations that have been suggested in the human capital literature. Successively accounted for are potential sources of...

Using data on 162 household beneficiaries of the Lalakas ang Katawang Sapat sa Sustansiya (LAKASS) program in Abra, we estimate an ordered probit model to explore the associations between the type of interventions received by these households and their socioeconomic and demographic...