This study examines an interesting phenomenon: the educational gap between boys and girls in the United Arab Emirates. Drawing on literature in sociology of gender, sociology of education, and Middle East Studies, this dissertation explores who is and who is not academically ach…
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Young Ladakhis experience markedly different childhoods from those of their parents and previous generations. In this rural region of the western Himalayas, a transition has occurred since the 1990s wherein education is now widely supported among Ladakhis as a priority for child…
This dissertation brings together evidence on educational attainment in Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and returns to education in Bulgaria, and explores schooling investment decisions through a qualitative study in Bulgaria. I extend the existing literature to transition e…
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…
Children’s work in developing countries is generally depicted as competing with children’s education, harmful to children and societies, and a product of family strategies for confronting poverty. These assumptions remain problematic as they are built on research that focuses on…
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…
Fertility preference is an important indicator of general attitudes towards childbearing and the possible courses of future fertility trends. Demographic research shows that, as the schooling of women increases, their desire to have a large number of children decreases. However,…
This thesis examines both theoretically and empirically the joint determination of alternative work and school outcome processes, and the impact of child work on human capital accumulation in the context of rural Bangladesh, where low levels of educational achievement coexist wi…
This thesis constitutes an interpretive ethnography of children’s educational experiences in rural Rwanda. It advances a theoretical argument for conceptualizing subjectivity, one which attends to how impersonal forces of political economy and history converge to inform children…
In Lebanon, the symbolic value of language has held prominence in religious and secular nationalist discourses and ideological struggles over the last century, as bilingual educational practices spread through missionary and colonial institutions. This dissertation examines the …
The first chapter uses cointegration technique of Saikkouen [1991] that controls for endogeneity of repressors to test whether the regional rice markets in India are integrated. It also estimates the effects of government restrictions on interzonal arbitrage. It is found that Sa…
Parent involvement has an influence on children's educational engagement during the elementary years. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of rural Turkish parents about their involvement in schooling with elementary school students based on Epstein's (1995) …
Every year Muslims worldwide fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan. In 2010 alone, more than 1.2 billion Muslims globally, and 155 million Muslims in Indonesia, were potentially exposed to their mother's fasting. My first paper uses longitudinal data (the Indonesian Family Li…
This project examines efforts by the Islamic Republic of Iran to produce loyal "Islamic Citizens" through its postrevolutionary school system as way of securing the hegemonic rule of the state. Drawing upon eighteen months of fieldwork in Iran, including archival research of tex…
Children’s work in the street of developing countries has been accused of contributing to children’s low enrollment in formal schooling. In Indonesia, the government has been employing the Education for All policy in order to abolish children from working in the street. This dis…
This thesis explores the role of openness to international trade on economic development, characterised by economic growth and income inequality, across countries. The existing empirical literature has shown that the effect of trade on economic development may not be well captur…
This dissertation examines the relationship in Malaysia between fertility and child schooling. Theoretical models are developed to illustrate the quantity-quality tradeoff involved in this relationship, and to explain how number of children and quality of children as measured by…
This dissertation is composed of four essays on schooling and economic development. Chapter 2 investigates the role of permanent and transitory income shocks in school attendance using household panel data from Pakistan. The results of school entrant and dropout regressions indi…
The purpose of this research was to share and interpret the stories of young women in Zaria, an urban city in northern Nigeria, in order to illustrate how their unique positions framed their identity and their attitude toward schooling. There has been a huge concern about the in…