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 …

database from Nepal. There are two novel features of our analysis: firstly we allow for heterogeneity among private schools, by …

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

? How are wages determined? What role do labor market dynamics play in explaining business cycles and growth? The survey …

uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open overlapping-generations economy with heterogeneous agents. It … impact of higher inequality on the aggregate human capital stock, and thus, on growth may be positive. This result rests on …

findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce … fertility, child mortality, and undernutrition, we estimate what the costs in terms of growth, and forgone fertility, mortality … per capita growth rates as a result and will have 0.1-0.4 more children per woman, and, by 2015, an average of 15 per 1000 …

growth. A summary of what we learn from the econometric results concludes the paper. …

macroeconomic performance (that is, on per capita GDP growth). However, we find that dynamic ethnic fractionalization is negatively … related to growth (although this is still not the case for linguistic and religious fractionalization). These findings are …

of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e. the ‘control … growth and produce and commercialize high quality innovations. They are more satisfied than employees. More importantly …, recent studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of …