Research problem and research goals are presented in the first chapter. Primary and secondary hypotheses, research methods as well as data sources are explained in the introduction. Then, expected scientific contribution of this research and its limitations are presented, in add…
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This dissertation contains three separate essays on the dynamic models of labor supply and retirement. The first essay documents “sharp retirement”—retirement accompanied by a discontinuous decline in labor supply—across three data sets, which previous literature found difficult…
This qualitative study explores the underlying reasons of the decisions of U.S. educated Turkish professors to stay in the United States or return to Turkey. To collect data, interviews were conducted with a total of 20 U.S. educated faculty members, as 10 returned to Turkey whi…
This dissertation focuses on examining the determinants of children's educational attainment in different settings. Specifically, Chapters 2 and 3 examine two key determinants of children's educational attainment in Egypt: parents' levels of education and mother's hours of work.…
The diverse developing countries of Southeast Asia - Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Laos, and Myanmar -have by and large embraced globalization through trade liberalization, integration with global production networks, and engagement with multinational cor…
Poor infrastructure, health, and pervasive corruption constitute key constraints on African development. This dissertation includes three chapters devoted to these issues. The first chapter estimates the effects of infrastructure on neo-natal health in Tanzania. Relying on 350 h…
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to examine the Five-Year Development Plans from 1970 through 2004 in regard to human resource development’s conflicting objectives and the primary workforce issues including education (general and higher) and training (technical education a…
Purpose. The purpose of this qualitative study was to (a) explore the current unemployment crisis in Saudi Arabia, (b) evaluate the efficacy of the human capital development model as it relates to the current unemployment problem, (c) evaluate the efficacy of the human capital d…
This dissertation examines whether and how financial policies affect the distributions of income and wealth. It also explores and compares the evolution of income inequality, along an inverted U-shaped Kuznetsian path, when only human capital formation takes place and when the s…
Recently, basic education has been considered as one of the most important fundamentals to adjust the inequality problem and further, to alleviate poverty in developing countries such as Bangladesh. On the background of this expectation for basic education, there have been some …
In this dissertation I address two important aspects of the process governing the intrahousehold allocation of resources in child welfare: the parental decision process that underlies the distribution of resources among individuals, and the hypothesis that mothers have stronger …
There is an extensive literature suggesting large benefits to schooling among farm households in developing nations. However, there are few studies of the opportunity cost of education in developing nations, and, to this author's knowledge, none have examined how schooling inves…
Investing in nutrition is desirable in itself. Adequate nutrition is essential for the proper growth and development of individuals and partly determines the quality of life and well-being of individuals. But there is also an economic rationale for investing in nutrition. Nutrit…
The analysis presented in this dissertation contributes to the understanding of interregional differences in wage structures in a Southeast Asian country through a multidimensional analysis. In specific, the effect of regional residency on the relationship between human capital …
The formation of human capital is the main issue in this dissertation. More specifically, this dissertation discusses two alternative types of transferring human capital, in contrast to the transfer of human capital from parents to their children's education. These two types of …
Using 1993 Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), the three essays examine intra-household human capital resource allocations in rural Indonesia. The first essay, “Educational Resource Allocation between Boys and Girls: A Structural Approach”, formulates a structural model allowi…
This dissertation consists of three separate essays that empirically investigate issues in economic development and urbanization. Chapter 1 investigates the role played by cultural and political institutions in determining gender norms. Chapter 2 explores the role played by earl…
Scope and method of study. The goal of this study is to investigate the roles of market structure and human capital in developing countries' (DC's) ability to expand exports of processed agricultural goods. The study provides three separate theoretical and empirical analyses bas…
A major educational challenge that a developing country, such as Indonesia, faces is the consideration of cost-effective strategies to stimulate its human capital development. Over the past three and a half decades, many scholars have acknowledged the role educational investment…