We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…
We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law firms in the world.…
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash…
Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. Recent studies have…
Venezuela has seen an unprecedented exodus of people in recent months. In response to a dramatic economic downturn in which inflation is…
We use literacy data available in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 129 survey rounds, across 54 countries, to estimate the…
Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the lives of Indian women, and yet female labor…
This paper presents a conceptual account of urban governance in Mumbai as a rent-sharing system based fundamentally on control over urban…
We use a unique set of nationally representative data of adults from ten developing countries and a unique measure of literacy - a direct…