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Are drone strikes effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? : on the dynamics of violence between the United States and the Taliban

Jaeger, David A.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011

Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any …/Al-Qaeda violence in Pakistan. We find that our results are robust to examining different time periods and lag structures. We also …

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Does management matter in schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

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Globalization, brain drain and development

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011

This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant...

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Regional income inequality in selected large countries

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels

Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022

This paper uses Indian EUS-NSSO data on 32 states/union territories and 570 districts for a bi-annual panel with 5 waves to estimate how regional population reacts to asymmetric shocks. These shocks are measured by non-employment rates, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions...

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Food for fuel : the effect of the US biofuel mandate on poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2018

More than 40% of US grain is used for energy due to the Renewable Fuels Mandate (RFS). There are no studies of the global distributional consequences of this purely domestic policy. Using micro-level survey data, we trace the effect of the RFS on world food prices and their impact on household...

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Formal and informal risk sharing in LDCs : theory and empirical evidence

Dubois, Pierre (contributor); Jullien, Bruno (contributor); … - 2007

estimate the model with the use of data from Pakistan villages. Empirical results are consistent with the economic arguments …

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Does cash for school influence young women's behavior in the longer term? : evidence from Pakistan

Alam, Andaleeb; Baez, Javier E.; Del Carpio, Ximena V. - 2011

The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was … ; female education ; female labor participation ; fertility ; Pakistan …

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Organizational barriers to technology adoption : evidence from soccer-ball producers in Pakistan

Atkin, David J.; Chaudhry, Shahid Amjad; Chaudry, Shamyla; … - 2015

This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new …

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Can microinsurance help prevent child labor? : an impact evaluation from Pakistan

Landmann, Andreas; Frölich, Markus - 2013

labor ; health insurance ; Pakistan …

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