This paper investigates the effectiveness of a globally popular method of self-learning at the right level in improving learning outcomes—the cog- nitive and non-cognitive abilities of disadvantaged pupils—in a developing country, Bangladesh. Using a randomized control trial design, we find...

An analysis of a field survey to investigate household decisions about schooling in rural Pakistan suggests that hiring more female teachers and providing more primary schools for girls closer to villages will improve the chances of rural Pakistani girls entering school and staying...

This study examines the effect of government capital injections into financially troubled banks on corporate investment during the Japanese banking crisis of the late 1990s. By helping them to meet the capital requirements imposed by Japanese banking regulation, recapitalization enables banks to...

This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...