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...

This chapter surveys the voluminous literature on household formation and marriage markets in developing countries. We begin by discussing the many social and economic factors that incite individuals to live together in households. Many of these factors are particularly important in poor...

This paper examines the correlates of poverty transitions and consumption per capita, using a new longitudinal data set from Bangladesh. It first examines the determinants of poverty transition categories (chronic poor, never poor, falling into poverty, moving out of poverty) as a function of...