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In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models …
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This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage …
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The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was …
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Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a...
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Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level … elusive. The inability of successive governments to reform the system has created severe constraints for Pakistan's economic … education. We discuss in this paper the imperative for education system reform in Pakistan, and articulate why a window of …
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