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The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was …
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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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on a suite of well-being indicators using a unique, 22-year longitudinal study in rural Pakistan. We account for …
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and mothers' labor market participation decision, in a rural area of Pakistan where drop-out rates are considerably high …
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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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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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Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education …
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This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of students from poor households. We use the longitudinal academic records of a cohort of students from all middle schools in a nationally designated poor county in China. Using the...
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Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a...
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