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direct impact of a female school stipend program in Punjab, Pakistan: Did the intervention increase female enrollment in …
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of women and their families. The authors study the pervasive marriage custom of watta satta in rural Pakistan, a bride …
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The authors report on a survey of primary public and private schools in rural Pakistan with a focus on student …. Levels of learning and the structure of the educational gaps are similar in the two samples. As in Pakistan, absolute …
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This paper looks at the private schooling sector in Pakistan, a country that is seriously behind schedule in achieving … Pakistan and show that an increasing segment of children enrolled in private schools are from rural areas and from middle … Pakistan is less than a dime a day (Rs.6). They hire predominantly local, female, and moderately educated teachers who have …
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Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects, in part, borrowing constraints that inhibit private investment in human capital by the poor. One promise of the recent proposals to open international labor markets to allow for...
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consequences. The data come from rural Pakistan, where, as in the rest of Asia, son preference is substantial and there are large …
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opportunistic expropriation or holdup. The authors find evidence of such underinvestment on tenanted land in rural Pakistan. Using …
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Facing a youth bulge - a large influx of a young labor force - the Pakistani economy needs to create more jobs by taking advantage of this relatively well-educated young labor force. Yet, the educated young labor force suffers a higher unemployment rate, and there is a concern that the current...
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governance reform in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge measurements across all of Punjab …
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influence of nearly a quarter million irrigators in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin watershed allow the construction of a novel …
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