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While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal ...

The advent of wearable non-invasive sensors for the consumer market has made it cost-effective to conduct studies that integrate physiological measures such as heart rate into data analysis research. In this paper we investigate the predictive value ...

This paper investigates why children work by studying the wage elasticity of child labour supply. Incorporating subsistence constraints in to a model of labour supply, we show that a negative wage elasticity favours the hypothesis that poverty ...

A part-biographical, part-historical and part-polemical essay, this study revisits Rem Koolhaas?s classic meditation on Singapore?s natural and built environment in the post-independence era. Building on Koolhaas?s provocative depiction of Singapore ...

A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is more ...