made in terms of several macroeconomic indicators, GDP, Unemployment, Inflation, Current Account Balances, and debt. …

Payments measure of remittances, it ranked tenth in the world in 2008 in the ratio of remittances to GDP, a rapid increase from … habits among boys in remittance or transfer receiving households. In the long run, Kyrgyzstan needs human capital development …

transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys … collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that Kyrgyzstan, like Eastern European middle income transition economies, generally … younger population. -- intergenerational mobility ; educational attainment ; gender ; transition economy ; Kyrgyzstan …

We use panel data for rural Kyrgyzstan to examine households' international migration response when faced with shocks …

youngest son of a family usually lives with his parents. Using data from Kyrgyzstan, we therefore instrument co-residence with … who co-reside in Kyrgyzstan have more children, spend similar time on housekeeping tasks and child care, and invest more …

(migrant monetary transfers), and alcohol consumption of migrant household members staying behind in Kyrgyzstan, a poor post …

Kyrgyzstan Study, a rich longitudinal data set from a transition economy with high levels of international temporary migration …

Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at …

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking - one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …