Discriminative canonical correlation analysis (DCCA) is a powerful supervised feature extraction technique for two sets of multivariate data, which has wide applications in pattern recognition. DCCA consists parts: (i) mean-centering that subtracts the sample mean from and (ii) solving generalized eigenvalue problem. The cost expensive when dealing with large number high-dimensional samples. To...

The disease environment in general, and malaria in particular, could help explain underdevelopment in many regions of the world, especially in Africa. Using data from Ethiopia, this paper provides evidence that local malaria risk is associated with worse local development outcomes. By combining information from a large-scale Ethiopian household survey with satellite-derived topographical inform...

What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India? We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women’s labor force participation stagnated at around 18%. Using five large cross-sectional micro survey...

The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind This paper addresses the effects of migration on families left behind and offers new evidence on the impact of migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migr...

We introduce publicly funded education into R&D-based economic growth theory. Our framework allows us to i) explicitly describe a realistic process of human capital accumulation within these types of growth models, ii) reconcile semi-endogenous growth theory with the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic development and population growth, and iii) revise the policy invariance ...

mArch 2017 IZA DP No. 10674 Do Friendship Networks Improve Female Education?* We randomly assign more than 6,000 students from 150 primary schools in Bangladesh to work on math assignments in one of three settings: individually, in groups with random schoolmates, or in groups with friends. The groups consist of four people and are balanced by average cognitive ability and ability distribution. ...

Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso’s BRIGHT Project Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT substantiall...