International openness via the pursuit of liberal trade and investment policies has become one of the conventional verities of the policy advice handed out by multilateral institutions over the past two decades. Greater international integration is now widely regarded as a pre-requisite for improved economic performance and higher per capita incomes, with the former intellectual consensus that ...

The Nutrition Advisory Committee, Washington .As a physician and a health officer I am vitally interested iQ the health of the people of this country, ine enriched flour and bread programme is one of jttajor importance in accomplishing something construc*Xe to meet the serious dietary deficiencies which exist in this country to-day. Many of you may think nat the American public is well-fed. As ...

We examine Becker's (1960) contention that children are "normal." For the cross section of non-Hispanic white married couples in the U.S., we show that when we restrict comparisons to similarly-educated women living in similarly-expensive locations, completed fertility is positively correlated with the husband's income. The empirical evidence is consistent with children being "normal." In an ef...

Yvonne Acheampong. All Rights reserved, Readers may make verbertim copies, of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Abstract This paper provides evidence for determinants of households participation in rural development projects. Study findings are based on qualitative analysis and logistic estimation of a random utili...

Economic globalization will give many women in developing countries access to steady and relatively remunerative employment for the first time, potentially shifting bargaining power within their households and changing the choices that are made for their children. This paper exploits a unique setting - a group of tea plantations in South India where women are employed in permanent wage labor an...

Richard A. Easterlin University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0253, USA Received 10 January 1994; revised 22 September 1994 Today, as in the past, within a country at a given time those with higher incomes are, on average, happier. However, raising the incomes of all does not increase the happiness of all. This is because the material norms on which judgments of well-being are b...

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Amid concerns that too few physicians practice in many rural areas, lower income potential is cited as one obstacle to attracting and retaining rural physicians. Congress has responded by increasing Medicare payment rates to virtually all physicians practicing in rural areas. However, average physician incomes in rural and urban areas do not differ significantly, even after accounting for diffe...

Using innovative data with objective and subjective measures of stress collected from 122 employed men and women, this paper tests the thesis of the Time Bind by asking whether people report lower stress levels at work than at home. The study finds consistent support for the Time Bind hypothesis when examining objective stress data: when participants were at work they had lower values of the st...

As population aging becomes more pronounced in the developing world, the uneven implementation of social safety nets raises important questions as to howwell traditional family-basedmechanisms insure elderly incomes when pension systems fail. Using a unique dataset from a recent household survey conducted in urban China, we find evidence that private transfers respond to low household income of...