Journal of Human Resources articles from September 1993

Journal of Human Resources archives from September 1993

Investments in the schooling and health of women and men: quantities and returns. (Symposium on Investments in Women's Human Capital and Development: Overview, Theory, and Measurement)
September 22, 1993... substitutes. Contrary to our hypothetical example, correcting for sample selection bias does not raise the low returns to the lowest levels of schooling in the U.S. labor market, although the unemployment and welfare benefits have the...

Women, insurance capital, and economic development in rural India. (Symposium on Investments in Women's Human Capital and Development: Overview, Theory, and Development)
September 22, 1993... Working Paper WPS 345, Country Economics Department, The World Bank, December 1989. Coate, Stephen, and Martin Ravallion. 1993. "Reciprocity without Commitment: Characterization and Performance of Informal Insurance Arrangements." Journal of...

Information, learning, and wage rates in low-income rural areas. (Symposium on Investments in Women's Human Capital and Development: Overview, Theory, and Meausurement)
September 22, 1993... The most striking feature of Table 4 is that men are paid a higher wage than women among workers with the same productivity, with this differential significant and of a similar magnitude in the Indian and Philippine villages. Thus there is either...

Gender and life-cycle differentials in the patterns and determinants of adult health. (includes appendices) (Symposium on Investments in Women's Human Capital and Development: Health)
September 22, 1993... DaVanzo 1988). To date studies have not controlled for the fact that child-spacing is a choice of women and families, thus endogenous in empirical models. 33. A paper by Verbrugge (1989) attempts to shed light on these questions using...

Quality of medical care and choice of medical treatment in Kenya: an empirical analysis. (includes appendix) (Symposium on Investments in Women's Human Capital and Development: Health)
September 22, 1993... D.C.: The World Bank. Varian, H. R. 1984. Microeconomic Analysis. New York: Norton. Waddington, C. J., and K. A. Enyimayew. 1989. "A Price to Pay; The Impact of User Charges in Ashanti-Akim District, Ghana." International Journal of Health...

Daughters, education, and family budgets: Taiwan experiences. (includes appendices) (Symposium on Investments in Women's Human Capital and Development: Education)
September 22, 1993... Missing data controls In order to maintain sample size we have included dummy (0, 1) variables for missing parent data. Missing parent's education and occupation was coded at their mean values and then separate dummy variables created to control...

Gender differences in the returns to schooling and in school enrollment rates in Indonesia. (Symposium on Investments in Women's Human Capital and Development: Education)
September 22, 1993... Development Report 1990. New York: Oxford University Press. Vijverberg, Wim. 1992. "Schooling Investment and Returns in Cote d'Ivoire." Paper presented at the Conference on Women's Human Capital and Development, Bellagio, Italy, May 18-22....

Educational investments and returns for women and men in Cote d'Ivoire. (Ivory Coast)(includes appendices) (Symposium on Investments in Women's Human Capital and Development: Education)
September 22, 1993... ||Theta~.sub.1~, where |Mathematical Expression Omitted~ and |Mathematical Expression Omitted~ Suppose |V.sub.1w~ rises. Then since |Delta~||Epsilon~|prime~.sub.1w~/|Delta~|V.sub.1w~ = |Delta~||Epsilon~.sub.1w~/|Delta~|V.sub.1w~ = 0,...