Introduction -- Intergenerational Transformation of Empirical Research in Economics -- Implementing Empirical Economics into Policymaking -- Challenges in Empirical Research in Economics: The Way Forward -- The Next Generation of Empirical Labor Economics -- Past and Future of Empirical...

Do local institutions influence the nature of political clientelist exchange? We find a positive answer in the context of a village institution prevalent in Java since the Dutch colonial rule, where democratically elected village heads receive usufruct rights over a piece of communal village...

Pakistan has not had much success with labor-intensive export growth. It also has one of the world’s lowest rates of female labor force participation and low intersectoral mobility of female labor. This paper explores links between these two phenomena. From national household survey data we...