We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

field experiment in India that subsidizes the cost of learning spoken English, we find that full subsidy (compared to …

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa … Northern America. This projection suggests Africa has considerable potential to enjoy a demographic dividend. Whether and when …

stock market returns. We instrument the actual capital gains and dividend payments with past portfolio weights. Unrealized … a flat 5 percent for the rest of the distribution. Households' consumption is significantly more responsive to dividend …

China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a larger share of working age population (WAPS …). Currently, this dividend is slipping away and many in China are very concerned. Against this background I set out to examine the …

formal sector wage premium. The opposite is true for labor market regulation. Finally, we show that the so-called overhiring …

. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …