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5/1 /10 Living Standards Measurement Study Working Paper No. 104 Children's Health and Achievement in School --r ': Jere R. Behrman Victor Lavy  LSMS Working Papers No. 30 Deaton, Quality, Quantity, and Spatial Variation of Price: Estimating Price Elasticitiesfrom Cross-Sectional Data No. 31 Suarez-Berenguela, Financing the Health Sector in Peru No. 32 Suarez-Berenguela, Informal Sector, Labor Markets, and Returns to Education in Peru No. 33 van der Gaag and Vijverberg, Wage Determinants in Cdte d'Ivoire No. 34 Ainsworth and van der Gaag, Guidelinesfor Adapting the LSMS Living Standards Questionnaires to Local Conditions No. 35 Dor and van der Gaag, The Demandfor Medical Care in Developing Countries: Quantity Rationing in Rural CNte d'Ivoire No. 36 Newman, Labor Market Activity in C6te d'lvoire and Peru No. 37 Gertler, Locay, Sanderson, Dor, and van der Gaag, Health Care Financing and the Demandfor Medical Care No. 38 Stelcner, Arriagada, and Moock, Wage Determinants and School Attainment among Men in Peru No. 39 Deaton, The Allocation of Goods within the Household: Adults, Children, and Gender No. 40 Strauss, The Effects of Household and Community Characteristics on the Nutrition of Preschool Children: Evidencefrom Rural Cate d'lvoire No. 41 Stelcner, van der Gaag, and Vijverberg, Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Peru, 1985-86 No. 42 Glewwe, The Distribution of Welfare in Peru in 1985-86 No. 43 Vijverberg, Profitsfrom Self-Employment: A Case Study of Cote d'lvoire No. 44 Deaton and Benjamin, The Living Standards Survey and Price Policy Reform: A Study of Cocoa and Coffee Production in C.te d'lvoire No. 45 Gertler and van der Gaag, Measuring the Willingness to Payfor Social Services in Developing Countries No. 46 Vijverberg, Nonagricultural Family Enterprises in Cite d'lvoire: A Descriptive Analysis No. 47 Glewwe and de Tray, The Poor during Adjustment: A Case Study of Cote d'Ivoire No. 48 Glewwe and van der Gaag, Confronting Poverty in Developing Countries: Definitions, Information, and Policies No. 49 Scott and Amenuvegbe, Sample Designsfor the Living Standards Surveys in Ghana and Mauritania/Plans de sondage pour les enquetes sur le niveau de vie au Ghana et en Mauritanie No. 50 Laraki, Food Subsidies: A Case Study of Price Reform in Morocco (also in French, 50F) No. 51 Strauss and Mehra, Child Anthropometry in Cote d'Ivoire: Estinatesfrom Two Surveys, 1985 and 1986 No. 52 van der Gaag, Stelcner, and Vijverberg, Public-Private Sector Wage Comparisons and Moonlighting in Developing Countries: Evidencefrom Cate d'Ivoire and Peru No. 53 Ainsworth, Socioeconomic Determinants of Fertility in Cote d'Ivoire No. 54 Gertler and Glewwe, The Willingness to Payfor Education in Developing Countries: Evidencefrom Rural Peru No. 55 Levy and Newman, Rigidite des salaires: Donnees microeconomiques et macroeconomiques sur l'ajustement du marche du travail dans le secteur moderne (in French only) No. 56 Glewwe and de Tray, The Poor in Latin America during Adjustment: A Case Study of Peru No. 57 Alderman and Gertler, The Substitutability of Public and Private Health Carefor the Treatment of Children in Pakistan No. 58 Rosenhouse, Identifying the Poor: Is "Headship" a Useful Concept? No. 59 Vijverberg, Labor Market Performance as a Determinant of Migration No. 60 Jimenez and Cox, The Relative Effectiveness of Private and Public Schools: Evidencefrom Two Developing Countries No. 61 Kakwani, Large Sample Distribution of Several Inequality Measures: With Application to Cote d'Ivoire No. 62 Kakwani, Testingfor Significance of Poverty Differences: With Application to Cote d'lvoire No. 63 Kakwani, Poverty and Economic Growth: With Application to Cote d'lvoire No. 64 Moock, Musgrove, and Stelcner, Education and Earnings in Peru's Informal Nonfarm Family Enterprises No. 65 Alderman and Kozel, Formal and Informal Sector Wage Determination in Urban Low-Income Neighborhoods in Pakistan No. 66 Vijverberg and van der Gaag, Testingfor Labor Market Duality: The Private Wage Sector in Cote d'Ivoire (List continues on the inside back cover)  Chidren's Health and Achievement in School  The Living Standards Measurement Study The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) was established by the World Bank in 1980 to explore ways of improving the type and quality of house- hold data collected by statistical offices in developing countries. Its goal is to foster increased use of household data as a basis for policy decisionrmaking. Specifically, the LSMS is working to develop new methods to monitor progress in raising levels of living, to identify the consequences for households of past and proposed gov- ernment policies, and to improve communications between survey statisticians, an- alysts, and policymakers. The LSMS Working Paper series was started to disseminate intermediate prod- ucts from the LSMS. Publications in the series include critical surveys covering dif- ferent aspects of the LSMS data collection program and reports on improved methodologies for using Living Standards Survey (Lss) data. More recent publica- tions recommend specific survey, questionnaire, and data processing designs and demonstrate the breadth of policy analysis that can be carried out using LSS data.  LSMS Working Paper Number 104 Children's Health and Achievement in School Jere R. Behrman Victor Lavy The World Bank Washington, D.C.  Copyright