This study examines the impact of returns to work, for adult labor and child labor, on child work and schooling outcomes. We propose an…
Governments are most important in times of public crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Individuals, no matter how talented or self-…
I study the role of aspirations in economic development drawing on the existing theoretical and empirical literature and provide some new…
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash…
Venezuela has seen an unprecedented exodus of people in recent months. In response to a dramatic economic downturn in which inflation is…
Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. Recent studies have…
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…