Using household panel data from Korea for 1995-98, this paper shows that private transfers of Korean households were altruistically motivated. Although the altruistic motive of households seemed to be reinforced during the financial crisis, the amount of private transfers was still not...

The author examines the trends and factors affecting household income inequality in the Philippines from 1961 to 1991 paying attention to the rising proportion of urban households, age distribution changes, increasing number of highly educated households and wage rate inequality. (DÜI-Sen)

Drawing on the experiences of Asian countries, we attempt to identify the transferability of Asian Green Revolution to sub-Saharan Africa by examining whether there is a common set of factors affecting rice yields in the two regions. We have attempted to propose the strategy to realize a Green...

The main objective of this paper is to determine whether there is gender bias in the Philippines in intergenerational transfer of wealth as well as in the intrahousehold allocation of expenditures. The authors found that daughters receive less land but are compensated by more schooling. Larger...