Education, often considered the cornerstone of development, faces a dual challenge in today’s world: equipping students to navigate the…
Wyoming is facing two distinct labor market challenges: in the short-term, low workforce availability is a constraint while in the long-…
Manufacturing generates very little employment in the developing world. Urban jobs are predominantly informal, unproductive, and in…
The future of developing countries lies in services. Enhancing productivity in labor-absorbing services in particular must be an essential…
Experimental evidence from Pakistan shows distance poses a large and discontinuous access constraint: women with village-based training…
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with…
The comparative advantage of a location shapes its industrial structure. Current theoretical models based on this principle do not take a…
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We study how large shocks impact individuals’ skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia. The…
This article presents the findings for 11 cities across five geographical regions from a study led by Women in Informal Employment:…
This paper builds a new microdatabase that covers 100 countries at all income levels and long-run time series in the United States (1870–…