We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique … database from Nepal. There are two novel features of our analysis: firstly we allow for heterogeneity among private schools, by …'s expenditure as a determinant of its efficiency per unit of cost. We find that when expenditure is not included, the trust …

This paper examines how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women’s decisions to engage in employment. Using … three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of …

Using detailed survey data from Nepal, this paper examines the determinants of child labor with a special emphasis on …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …

as pivotal input in order to control for their particular contribution to firm-level efficiency. Conceptually, the study … of low-tech industries. However, with regard to firms' technical efficiency, R&D matters for all industries (unlike …

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …

. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …