Book reviews

Werner Röoll. Indonesien: Entwicklungsprobleme einer tropischen Inselwelt. Stuttgart: Klett, 1979. 206 pp.

Shirley Deane. Ambon: island of spices. London: John Murray, 1979. 222 pp. £5.95.

G. W. J. Drewes (ed. and tr.). An early Javanese oode of Muslim ethics. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. viii, 104 pp. (Bibliotheca Indonesica, 18.)

Tunku Shamsul Bahrin and P. D. A. Perera. FELDA: 21 years of land development. [Kuala Lumpur: Federal Land Development Authority, 1977.] x, 167pp., map.

Urs Ramseyer. The art and culture of Bali, [Translated from the German by Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. 266 pp.

J. P. Sarumpaet. Modern usage in Bahasa Indonesia. Carlton: Pitman, 1980. vii, 264 pp.

F. van Anrooij and others (ed.). Between people and statistics. Essays on modern Indonesian history presented to P. Creutzberg. Editorial committee: F. van Anrooij, D. H. A. Kolff, J. T. M. van Laanen, G. J. Telkamp. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff [for] the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, 1979. 315 pp. Paper, guilders 39.50./     

LOGNORMAL EXTRAPOLATION AND INCOME ESTIMATION FOR POOR BLACK FAMILIES*

ABSTRACT. In studies of urban and state income distribution, the estimation of percentile incomes within intervals reported by the Bureau of the Census has often been done under the assumption that incomes are uniformly distributed. This paper shows that income may be significantly underestimated if the assumption is applied to lower-level percentiles in the black family income distribution. Consequently, conclusions about the level and determinants of the relative income of poor black families may be misleading.     

Central and East European Trade Developments

Josef C. Brada, The European Community and Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Report on Eastern Europe.
de Weydenthal, Jan B., Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland Gain Associate Membership in the EC. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Report.
Agra Europe . Weekly issues.
East Europe Agriculture and Food Monthly .
EC Documents & Regulation (Number 34) .     

Women,work, property and gender in early modern Europe

Natalie DAVIS & Arlette FARGE eds, A History of Women in the West, III. Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1993, ISBN 0–674–40372‐X.

Merry E. WIESNER, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, ISBN 0–521–38459–1 hardback, 0–521–38613–6 paperback.

Hilary MARLAND, ed., The Art of Midwifery. Early Modem Midwives in Europe, Routledge, London, 1993, ISBN 0–415–06425–2.

Amy Louise ERICKSON, Women and Property in Early Modem England, Routledge, London, 1993, ISBN 0–415–06267–5.