Leonardo A Lanzona
Biographic Data
| ID | 6447560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonardo A Lanzona |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonardo A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lanzona |
| SIGNATURE | LANZONA L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ateneo de Manila University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7459-0141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learning, Government Budgets and Wage Growth in the Philippines
The inability of government policies to improve basic education quality thus hampers the country’s progress towards upper-middle-income status. An empirical model is developed to determine how government education budgets in basic education—reflected by the differences in regional shares in basic education government expenditures—may affect wage returns to basic education. The empirical results indicate that increasing government budget shares in…
The Philippine Development Crisis
The main aim of this special issue introduction is to develop the conceptual framework to contextualize the contributions and develop the idea why some countries like Philippines fall into the middle-income trap and why others are able to pass through the trap. The six articles presented in this issue are novel and unravel factors such as corruption, agriculture, education, labour market, technological progress and R&D policies that inhibit the s…
The Effect of Fragility on Labour Market Employment and Wages in the Philippines
Fragility refers to weak regional institutions that fail to respond to specific risks and needs of the community. The article aims to measure fragility and its effects on labour market employment and wages. The observed non-work-related migration is used to derive annual fragility indices for regions that are then incorporated into standard labour market employment and Mincer wage equations. The estimates indicate higher employment but lower wage…
Agrarian Reform and Democracy
Throughout the country’s history, agrarian reform in the Philippines has long been a combative issue and one that is often preceded by some form of instability and violence. Used mainly as a tool to garner grassroots support, agrarian reforms were formally institutionalized by setting up regulations on land size and contracts. Despite efforts to integrate the reforms to the markets, including the clustering of small hectares (ha) of land into lar…
The Sustainability of Recent Philippine Economic Growth
Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region's dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is …
Family Planning as an Investment in Human Capital
The objective of the study is to determine the effects of family planning and maternal and reproductive health (FP-MRH) programmes in cities and to analyze the institutional factors that can make them effective. The proposed methodology is experimental in design with data from both beneficiary and non-beneficiary households, the comparison of which will serve as the basis for measuring the benefits and costs of such programmes. The article analyz…
Migration, self-selection and earnings in Philippine rural communities
Migration, self-selection and earnings in Philippine rural communities
Agrarian Reform and Democracy
Throughout the country’s history, agrarian reform in the Philippines has long been a combative issue and one that is often preceded by some form of instability and violence. Used mainly as a tool to garner grassroots support, agrarian reforms were formally institutionalized by setting up regulations on land size and contracts. Despite efforts to integrate the reforms to the markets, including the clustering of small hectares (ha) of land into lar…
Migration, self-selection and earnings in Philippine rural communities
Family Planning as an Investment in Human Capital
The objective of the study is to determine the effects of family planning and maternal and reproductive health (FP-MRH) programmes in cities and to analyze the institutional factors that can make them effective. The proposed methodology is experimental in design with data from both beneficiary and non-beneficiary households, the comparison of which will serve as the basis for measuring the benefits and costs of such programmes. The article analyz…
The Sustainability of Recent Philippine Economic Growth
Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region's dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is …
Agrarian Reform and Democracy
Throughout the country’s history, agrarian reform in the Philippines has long been a combative issue and one that is often preceded by some form of instability and violence. Used mainly as a tool to garner grassroots support, agrarian reforms were formally institutionalized by setting up regulations on land size and contracts. Despite efforts to integrate the reforms to the markets, including the clustering of small hectares (ha) of land into lar…
The Effect of Fragility on Labour Market Employment and Wages in the Philippines
Fragility refers to weak regional institutions that fail to respond to specific risks and needs of the community. The article aims to measure fragility and its effects on labour market employment and wages. The observed non-work-related migration is used to derive annual fragility indices for regions that are then incorporated into standard labour market employment and Mincer wage equations. The estimates indicate higher employment but lower wage…
Learning, Government Budgets and Wage Growth in the Philippines
The inability of government policies to improve basic education quality thus hampers the country’s progress towards upper-middle-income status. An empirical model is developed to determine how government education budgets in basic education—reflected by the differences in regional shares in basic education government expenditures—may affect wage returns to basic education. The empirical results indicate that increasing government budget shares in…
The Philippine Development Crisis
The main aim of this special issue introduction is to develop the conceptual framework to contextualize the contributions and develop the idea why some countries like Philippines fall into the middle-income trap and why others are able to pass through the trap. The six articles presented in this issue are novel and unravel factors such as corruption, agriculture, education, labour market, technological progress and R&D policies that inhibit the s…
Economics (6 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 works) · Wage (3 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)