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estimate the model with the use of data from Pakistan villages. Empirical results are consistent with the economic arguments …
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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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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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This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new …
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labor ; health insurance ; Pakistan …
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This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and child labour, our identification...
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This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. Given the complex relationship between remittance receipt and child labour, our identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252636
Islamist groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere have sought to remove females from public life. This paper uses … data from Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement and the Global Terrorism Database to examine the impact of the …
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-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non …. For Pakistan, there is no evidence that micro-credit effects employment. However, for Bangladesh, there is robust evidence …
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The migrant selection literature concentrates primarily on spatial patterns. This paper illustrates the implications of migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of the labor literature, a search model and a Roy model. Theory and empirics show temporary migrants...
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