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Slesh A. Shrestha

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First Name:Slesh
Middle Name:A.
Last Name:Shrestha
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RePEc Short-ID:psh621
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Terminal Degree:2012 Economics Department; University of Michigan (from RePEc Genealogy)

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Department of Economics
National University of Singapore (NUS)

Singapore, Singapore
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Working papers

  1. Xavier Giné & Ghazala Mansuri & Slesh A. Shrestha, 2018. "Designing Wage Contracts in Multi-Goal Organizations," World Bank Publications - Reports 29294, The World Bank Group.
  2. Gine,Xavier & Mansuri,Ghazala & Shrestha,Slesh Anand, 2017. "Mission and the bottom line : performance incentives in a multi-goal organization," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8270, The World Bank.
  3. Beam, Emily A. & Shrestha, Slesh, 2016. "Inter-ethnic Fertility Spillovers and the Role of Forward-looking Behavior: Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia," IZA Discussion Papers 10385, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

Articles

  1. Slesh A. Shrestha, 2020. "Roads, Participation in Markets, and Benefits to Agricultural Households: Evidence from the Topography-Based Highway Network in Nepal," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 68(3), pages 839-864.
  2. Slesh A. Shrestha & Dean Yang, 2019. "Facilitating Worker Mobility: A Randomized Information Intervention among Migrant Workers in Singapore," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 68(1), pages 63-91.
  3. Slesh A. Shrestha, 2017. "No Man Left Behind: Effects of Emigration Prospects on Educational and Labour Outcomes of Non‐migrants," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 127(600), pages 495-521, March.
  4. Slesh A. Shrestha & Nethra Palaniswamy, 2017. "Sibling rivalry and gender gap: intrahousehold substitution of male and female educational investments from male migration prospects," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 30(4), pages 1355-1380, October.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Gine,Xavier & Mansuri,Ghazala & Shrestha,Slesh Anand, 2017. "Mission and the bottom line : performance incentives in a multi-goal organization," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8270, The World Bank.

    Cited by:

    1. Erika Deserranno & Gianmarco León-Ciliotta & Firman Witoelar, 2021. "When transparency fails: Financial incentives for local banking agents in Indonesia," Departmental Working Papers 2021-04, The Australian National University, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics.
    2. Mansuri,Ghazala & Palaniswamy,Nethra & Rao,Vijayendra & Shrestha,Slesh Anand, 2022. "Money versus Kudos : The Impact of Incentivizing Local Politicians in India," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10186, The World Bank.

Articles

  1. Slesh A. Shrestha, 2020. "Roads, Participation in Markets, and Benefits to Agricultural Households: Evidence from the Topography-Based Highway Network in Nepal," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 68(3), pages 839-864.

    Cited by:

    1. Wenmei Guo & Veeshan Rayamajhee & Alok K. Bohara, 2023. "Impacts of climate change on food utilization in Nepal," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(1), pages 630-659, February.
    2. Bensch, Gunther & Gotz, Gunnar & Peters, Jörg, 2020. "Effects of Rural Electrification on Employment: A Comment on Dinkelman (2011)," MetaArXiv zhn9b, Center for Open Science.
    3. Sharma, Hari, 2020. "The effect of emigration and remittances on labour supply of the left-behind: Evidence from Nepal," MPRA Paper 102091, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Neubauer, Florian & Songsermsawas, Tisorn & Kámiche-Zegarra, Joanna & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., 2022. "Technical efficiency and technological gaps correcting for selectivity bias: Insights from a value chain project in Nepal," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 112(C).
    5. Kafle, Kashi & Songsermsawas, Tisorn & Winters, Paul, 2021. "Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain investment by gender and ethnicity: The case of Nepal," 2021 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Austin, Texas 313941, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    6. Songsermsawas, Tisorn & Kafle, Kashi & Winters, Paul, 2023. "Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 168(C).
    7. Kafle, Kashi & Songsermsawas, Tisorn & Winters, Paul, 2021. "IFAD Research Series Issue 65 - Impacts of agricultural value chain development in a mountainous region: Evidence from Nepal," IFAD Research Series 311008, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
    8. Kafle, Kashi & Songsermsawas, T. & Winters, P., 2021. "Impacts of agricultural value chain development in a mountainous region: evidence from Nepal," IWMI Books, Reports H050432, International Water Management Institute.
    9. Kebede, Hundanol A., 2024. "Gains from market integration: Welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 168(C).
    10. Hayakawa, Kazunobu & Keola, Souknilanh & Sudsawasd, Sasatra & Yamanouchi, Kenta, 2022. "Impacts of an international bridge on households: Evidence from Thailand," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    11. Kebede, Hundanol A., 2022. "Market integration and separability of production and consumption decisions in farm households," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 158(C).
    12. Kashi Kafle & Tisorn Songsermsawas & Paul Winters, 2022. "Agricultural value chain development in Nepal: Understanding mechanisms for poverty reduction," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 53(3), pages 356-373, May.
    13. Subedi, Yuba Raj & Kristiansen, Paul & Cacho, Oscar, 2022. "Reutilising abandoned cropland in the Hill agroecological region of Nepal: Options and farmers’ preferences," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 117(C).
    14. Wonchul Kim & Sung Hyo Hong, 2022. "An Empirical Analysis of the Benefits of Opening a Highway in Terms of Changes in Housing Prices," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-11, May.
    15. Neubauer, Florian & Songsermsawas, Tisorn & Kámiche-Zegarra, Joanna N. & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., 2021. "Technology and Technical Efficiency Gaps Correcting for Selectivity Bias: A Preliminary Analysis from a Value Chain Project in Nepal," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 314979, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    16. Yanyan Gao & Xinping Wang, 2023. "Chinese agriculture in the age of high‐speed rail: Effects on agricultural value added and food output," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 39(2), pages 387-405, March.

  2. Slesh A. Shrestha & Dean Yang, 2019. "Facilitating Worker Mobility: A Randomized Information Intervention among Migrant Workers in Singapore," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 68(1), pages 63-91.

    Cited by:

    1. World Bank Group, 2018. "A Migrant’s Journey for Better Opportunities," World Bank Publications - Reports 30272, The World Bank Group.
    2. Barsbai, Toman, 2018. "Pre-departure policies for migrants' origin countries," PEGNet Policy Briefs 14/2018, PEGNet - Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    3. Melissa Siegel, 2017. "Commentaires sur « Des politiques migratoires pour promouvoir le développement »," Revue d’économie du développement, De Boeck Université, vol. 25(1), pages 97-103.
    4. Barsbai, Toman & Licuanan, Victoria & Steinmayr, Andreas & Tiongson, Erwin & Yang, Dean, 2024. "Information and immigrant settlement," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 170(C).
    5. Boudreau, Laura & Heath, Rachel & McCormick, Tyler H., 2024. "Migrants, experience, and working conditions in Bangladeshi garment factories," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 219(C), pages 196-213.
    6. Christopher Cotton & Ardyn Nordstrom & Jordan Nanowski & Eric Richert, 2020. "Community Campaigns to Improve Attitudes towards Girls' Education Can Increase Math Scores and Enrollment," Working Paper 1426, Economics Department, Queen's University.
    7. Toman Barsbai & Victoria Licuanan & Andreas Steinmayr & Erwin Tiongson & Dean Yang, 2020. "Information and the Acquisition of Social Network Connections," NBER Working Papers 27346, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

  3. Slesh A. Shrestha, 2017. "No Man Left Behind: Effects of Emigration Prospects on Educational and Labour Outcomes of Non‐migrants," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 127(600), pages 495-521, March.

    Cited by:

    1. Clemens, Michael A., 2015. "Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development," IZA Discussion Papers 9218, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Costanza Biavaschi & Michal Burzynski & Benjamin Elsner & Joël Machado, 2018. "Taking the Skill Bias out of Global Migration," Working Papers 201810, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
    3. Docquier, Frédéric & Iftikhar, Zainab, 2019. "Brain drain, informality and inequality: A search-and-matching model for sub-Saharan Africa," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 109-125.
    4. Djajić, Slobodan & Docquier, Frédéric & Michael, Michael S., 2019. "Optimal education policy and human capital accumulation in the context of brain drain," Journal of Demographic Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 85(4), pages 271-303, December.
    5. Anelí Bongersy & Carmen Díaz-Roldán & José L. Torres, 2018. "Brain Drain or Brain Gain? International labor mobility and human capital formation," Working Papers 18-04, Asociación Española de Economía y Finanzas Internacionales.
    6. Christoph Deuster, 2019. "Climate change, education and mobility in Africa," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp1904, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.
    7. Biavaschi, Costanza & Burzynski, Michal & Elsner, Benjamin & Machado, Joël, 2016. "The Gain from the Drain: Skill-biased Migration and Global Welfare," IZA Discussion Papers 10275, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    8. Baran Siyahhan & Hamed Ghoddusi, 2022. "Optimal investment in human capital under migration uncertainty," Review of International Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(2), pages 422-449, May.
    9. Theoharides, Caroline, 2020. "The unintended consequences of migration policy on origin-country labor market decisions," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).
    10. Matteo Gomellini & Cormac Ó Gráda, 2019. "Brain Drain and Brain Gain in Italy and Ireland in the Age of Mass Migration," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: David Mitch & Gabriele Cappelli (ed.), Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education, chapter 0, pages 163-191, Palgrave Macmillan.
    11. Khandker Wahedur Rahman, 2023. "International migration and the religious schooling of children in the home country: evidence from Bangladesh," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 36(3), pages 1963-2005, July.
    12. Yao Pan & Jessica Leight, 2021. "Educational Responses to Migration-Augmented Export Shocks: Evidence from China," Working Papers 2021-14, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy.
    13. Michael Clemens & Satish Chand, 2008. "Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment," Working Papers 152, Center for Global Development, revised Feb 2019.
    14. Cha’Ngom, Narcisse & Deuster, Christoph & Docquier, Frédéric & Machado, Joël, 2023. "Selective Migration and Economic Development: A Generalized Approach," IZA Discussion Papers 16222, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    15. Chakra P. Acharya & Roberto Leon-Gonzalez, 2016. "International Remittances, Rural-Urban Migration, and the Quest for Quality Education: The Case of Nepal," GRIPS Discussion Papers 15-25, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
    16. Björn NILSSON, 2019. "Education and migration: insights for policymakers," Working Paper 23ca9c54-061a-4d60-967c-f, Agence française de développement.
    17. Jeenat Binta Jabbar, 2022. "Effects of parental migration on the education of left-behind children," Technium Social Sciences Journal, Technium Science, vol. 33(1), pages 309-350, July.
    18. DELOGU Marco & DOCQUIER Frédéric & MACHADO Joël, 2017. "Globalizing labor and the world economy: the role of human capital," LISER Working Paper Series 2017-16, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).
    19. Chakra Pani Acharya & Roberto Leon-Gonzalez, 2018. "The Quest for Quality Education:International Remittances and Rural-Urban Migration in Nepal," GRIPS Discussion Papers 17-13, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
    20. Mobarak, Ahmed & Sharif, Iffath & Shrestha, Maheshwor, 2021. "Returns to International Migration: Evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia Visa Lottery," CEPR Discussion Papers 15990, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    21. Bocquier, Philippe & Cha’Ngom, Narcisse & Docquier, Frédéric & Machado, Joël, 2023. "The Within-Country Distribution of Brain Drain and Brain Gain Effects: A Case Study on Senegal," IZA Discussion Papers 16497, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    22. Fernando Antonio Ignacio González & Lara Sofía Cantero & Pablo Ariel Szyszko & Joel Herman Bys, 2022. "Programa Mais Médicos y Capital Humano en Argentina: ¿Fuga de Cerebros en el Sector Salud?," Working Papers 204, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE).
    23. Blanco-Álvarez, Jose & Parsons, Christopher & Tang, Sam & Wang, Yong, 2022. "Brain Refrain and Human Capital Formation in Spain," IZA Discussion Papers 15400, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    24. Romuald Méango, 2016. "What Makes Brain Drain More Likely? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa," CESifo Working Paper Series 6209, CESifo.
    25. Subedi, Mukti Nath & Bharadwaj, Bishal & Rafiq, Shuddhasattwa, 2023. "Who benefits from the decentralised energy system (DES)? Evidence from Nepal’s micro-hydropower (MHP)," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 120(C).
    26. José R. Bucheli & Alok K. Bohara & Matías Fontenla, 2018. "Mixed effects of remittances on child education," IZA Journal of Migration and Development, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 8(1), pages 1-18, December.
    27. Saad, Ayhab F. & Fallah, Belal, 2020. "How educational choices respond to large labor market shocks: Evidence from a natural experiment," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
    28. Subedi, Mukti Nath & Rafiq, Shuddhasattwa & Ulker, Aydogan, 2022. "Effects of Affirmative Action on Educational and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Nepal's Reservation Policy," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 200(C), pages 443-463.

  4. Slesh A. Shrestha & Nethra Palaniswamy, 2017. "Sibling rivalry and gender gap: intrahousehold substitution of male and female educational investments from male migration prospects," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 30(4), pages 1355-1380, October.

    Cited by:

    1. Fang Guanfu & Chen Yu, 2021. "Sibling Rivalry: Evidence from China’s Compulsory Schooling Reform," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 21(2), pages 611-656, April.
    2. Chuan, Amanda & List, John & Samek, Anya, 2021. "Do financial incentives aimed at decreasing interhousehold inequality increase intrahousehold inequality?," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 196(C).
    3. Bansak, Cynthia & Jiang, Xuan & Yang, Guanyi, 2020. "Sibling Spillover in Rural China: A Story of Sisters and Daughters," IZA Discussion Papers 13127, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    4. Guo, Hao & Hu, Chenxu & Ding, Xiaozhou, 2022. "Son preference, intrahousehold discrimination, and the gender gap in education in China," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 324-339.

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