paper uses unique data from primary schools in the state of Punjab in Pakistan to delve into the issues that may determine …

This paper documents the regional divide in educational facilities between East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and West … Pakistan between 1947 and 1971. During this period, the total number of primary schools in East Pakistan declined, leading to … overcrowding of existing schools and classrooms. On the other hand, despite being endowed with fewer schools, West Pakistan …

more complex.  Using unique data from Pakistan, we aim to understand the mechanisms through which parental schooling …

Pakistan has very large gender gaps in educational outcomes. While this suggests that girls may receive lower … whether the intra-household allocation of educational expenditure in Pakistan favour males over females. It also explores two … Pakistan, we estimate Engel curves and Hurdle models to address these questions. We posit two potential channels of gender bias …

government and private schools from one district in Punjab province in Pakistan. The data allow exploitation of an identification …

education in Pakistan. We empirically test this explanation by estimating private returns to education separately for male and … latest nationally representative data - the Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (2002) - is used. Earnings function …

Recent evidence from Pakistan points to significant pro-male bias within households in the allocation of education … questions, this paper makes three contributions to the literature. Firstly, this is one of a very few studies in Pakistan to …

weak. The limited direct evidence of human capital on firm productivity suggests that human capital is indeed productive … role of size and human capital as determinants of either earnings or productivity has been the role of unobserved factors …. In this paper we investigate the roles of size and human capital in determining both earnings and productivity using a …

Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will … the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred estimator combines high and low …

not due to a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity …