This paper explores how migration to local towns, big cities, and overseas has halted the transmission of poverty from parents to children in rural Philippines. Parents’ income has come mainly from agricultural sources while children’s income has come largely from nonfarm sources. Initially,...

This paper attempts to identify a pathway out of poverty over generations in the rural Philippines, based on long-term panel data spanning for nearly a quarter of a century. Specifically, it sequentially examines the determinants of schooling, subsequent occupational choices, and current...

This paper aims to assess the changing impact of distance on the development of rural nonfarm sector by exploring the changing allocation of rural labor force between the farm and nonfarm sectors in the Philippines using provincial-level data from 1988 to 2006. The impact of distance of a...