Considerable attention has been given to climate change and its impacts. Agriculture is of special concern as it is the primary source of food and is dependent on weather. There is a wide range of estimated climate change ...

Despite the recognised importance of total factor productivity (TFP) in explaining the remarkable economic performance of the High-Performing Asian economies (HPAEs), the study of TFP and its determinants has received ...

Monetary policy is a topic of enduring interest. This is partially due to the financial liberalisation that increases the volume of international capital flows and the influence of foreign monetary policy on the domestic ...

I implement a DCE to collect data with which I explore the variation across households in preferences for seven attributes of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems: upfront cost; savings on purchase of electricity; capitalisation ...

Leaving the parental home is a choice that everyone makes at some point in their life. The decision that all individuals make is choosing the optimal age to move from co-residence to independent living. It is well established ...

This thesis investigates the determinants of international capital flows and strives to present new evidence-based answers to the long-standing question of why capital tends not to flow from rich to poor countries as ...

This thesis is a collection of three separate but thematic studies on child human capital development in Nepal. The first study (Chapter 3) examines the relationship between parental education and child health outcomes ...

This thesis uses two unique microeconomic datasets to analyse the effectiveness of foreign aid on economic activity, where economic activity is measured using night light intensity. First, I create an innovative night ...

Since, 2010, New Zealand, Japan and Haiti have suffered from large scale damages as the result of earthquakes. Along with the devastating immediate losses associated with such disasters, particularly the loss of lives, ...