This paper examines the initial effects of the introduction of Universal Primary Education (UPE) in January 1997 on school entry in Uganda. Given that advanced age at school entry has historically been associated with primary school dropout, the paper focuses on the the effects of fee...

This paper relates strategic parental fertility behavior and early childhood human capital investments to prospective labor market opportunities in Vietnam. Suitability of land for plough adoption is shown to influence both traditional post-marital residence rules and contemporary under-5 sex...

Social norms about work evolved substantially in Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of full employment. However, amongst the subpopulation of older workers, whose views were formed under labour hoarding, ideas about working life remained similar. The resulting...

This paper tests three hypotheses about the origins of the conflict which begun in 2014 in Ukraine, using the 1995-2011 World Values Surveys. First, a hypothesis that the economic situation of young fighting-age men in Eastern Ukraine worsened relative to that of young men in Russia during...

The ability of socioeconomic survey data to forecast civil conflicts has been little tested. This paper employs the World Values Surveys to study the 1995-2011 evolution of economic conditions and subjective political and societal views in Ukraine. Changes over time in outcomes in the mainly...

We document the changing labour force participation patterns of women with young children in Russia during 1992–2004. In this period maternity leave benefits became less generous, and childcare was privatized and became increasingly scarce. Using nationally representative household survey data...

This paper investigates the importance of institutions as a determinant of growth and foreign direct investment (FDI) in 25 transition countries for 1990-1998. It introduces some novel institutional measures, performs extensive sensitivity tests, and checks for reverse causation. Estimation...

This paper explains how household formation rules affect the fertility and labour supply of women in the Former Soviet Union and neighbouring countries. Women who bear a male first child in countries dominated by traditional, patrilocal households are shown to have substantially lower subsequent...

This paper shows that rural electrification is associated with big changes in the time use of men and women in Nicaragua, even in the absence of labor-saving appliances. Electricity is shown to increase the propensity of rural Nicaraguan women to work outside the home by about 23%, but to have...

Why does work appear more important to the life satisfaction of some population groups than others? Household data from Russia in 1992 allows plausible identi cation of the causal impact of being workless on time spent in home production and life satisfaction. We present a model of home...