response of schooling to risk. We develop a model that incorporates, dynamic complementarity in the education production … the household. We test the model using data from rural India, focusing particularly on the schooling of girls. We find … risk-reducing effect of the NREGS may offset adverse effects on child education that were evident during the NREGS phase …

paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and …Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous … region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment …

substantially shift towards Asia and especially towards the Asian Giants, China and India. While such forecasts may pan out, there … are substantial reasons that China and India may grow much less rapidly than is currently anticipated. Most importantly … discontinuities account for a large fraction of the variation in growth rates. We suggest that salient characteristics of China …

patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment …Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries--in education, personal autonomy, and more … in India, the Middle East, and North Africa, for example. I also discuss why the sex ratio has become more male …

productivity growth. In an application to India, we find that productivity growth in consumer services such as retail and …

If education increases human capital, subsidizing education can generate economic growth and combat poverty. Estimates … of its return suggest that education is a good social investment. In sorting models, the return reflects in part the … information about productivity revealed by the worker's education. Thus the social and private returns diverge. It might appear …