The main purpose of this study is to suggest the transparent mode of payment to expected internally displaced persons of Thar coalfields areas of district Tharparkar, Sindh province of Pakistan. According to national and international laws if people are displaced then they are being compensated...

This paper studies human capital investment in a spatial setting with interpersonal complementarities. A mixture of local and global social interactions affects the cost of acquiring education, and the return to human capital is determined endogenously in the market. We study how spatially...

Migration has become a prominent research theme in geography and regional science and it has been approached from various methodological angles. Nonetheless, a common missing element in most migration studies is the lack of awareness of the overall network topology, which characterizes migration...

Iron Curtain and Big Data are two words usually used to denote completely two different eras. Yet, the context the former offers and the rich data source the latter provides, enable the causal identification of the effect of networks on migration. Academics in countries behind the Iron Curtain...

Migration has become a prominent research theme in geography and regional science and it has been approached from various methodological angles. Nonetheless, a common missing element in most migration studies is the lack of awareness of the overall network topology, which characterizes migration...

Whether basic entrepreneurship can be inculcated amongst the poorest in society and serve as a route out of poverty remains an open question. We provide evidence on this issue by looking at the effects of a large-scale asset transfer and training programme which is targeted at the poorest women...

Gagnon and Goyal (2017) develop an elegant model to understand the interaction between community and markets. One key argument is that, among others, whether markets and social ties are substitutes or complements plays a decisive role: markets undermine social ties in the case of substitutes and...

Iron Curtain and Big Data are two words usually used to denote completely different eras. Yet, the context the former offers and the rich data source the latter provides, complement each other in a perfect manner enabling the causal identification of the effect of networks on migration. Using...

Iron Curtain and Big Data are two words usually used to denote completely different eras. Yet, the context the former offers and the rich data source the latter provides, complement each other in a perfect manner enabling the causal identification of the effect of networks on migration. Using...

There have already been several established approaches regarding social externalities and location decision-making of the firm. However, those usually face certain difficulties when the model is applied to the real economic system. This technical problem may be solved by testing the case of...