In recent years, Nigeria witnessed significant labour migration coupled with reduction in rural agricultural productivity. Youths abandoned farms for ventures with high returns and less drudgery in cities thus labour availability in peak agricultural seasons became scarce. The declining farm population constituting mostly women and old men are not capable of producing sufficient food for the no...

Objective: There are major differences in neonatal and obstetrics outcomes of labour among different ethnicities. The present study compared the neonatal and obstetrics outcomes of labour between the Iranian and Afghan ethnicities. Methods: Neonatal and obstetrics problems were evaluated in Iranian and Afghan pregnant women, who had referred to Ar...

To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real hetero-sexual couples playing battle sexes game. The salience varies across treatments: Norm group chooses between strategies labelled as family game (Career vs. Family), Neutral A B. Women respond strongly to Norms; they opt for Career at significantly lower rate compared Neutral, ...

This paper presents a simple general equilibrium model of economic performance through time. The model incorporates 4 main determinants of economic performance: technology, capital investment, the division of labor and institutions. It demonstrates that growth is not automatic even with technological progress. In order to maintain economic growth, it is important to continuously implement new t...