Nicholas Vasilakos
Biographic Data
| ID | 5919637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Vasilakos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Vasilakos |
| SIGNATURE | VASILAKOS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3279-2885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Impact of Early Marriage on the Life Satisfaction, Education and Subjective Health of Young Women in India
Despite progress in reducing rates of early marriage, it is still a widespread practice in India accounting for 30 per cent of the world’s early marriages. Understanding its impacts is thus of high importance to global gender equality goals. This article examines the impact of early marriage on multi-dimensional aspects of well-being: life satisfaction, subjectively assessed health and educational attainment. Difference-in-differences analysis wi…
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance
We discuss conceptual reasons for and propose public investment in regional infrastructure as a hybrid form of a place-based regional industrial policy aiming to foster the regional economic activity of lagging regions. We present and empirically test a baseline model using data for 14 Indian regions/states over a period of 39 years. Our results show that place-based regional infrastructure investments, particularly in electricity-generating capa…
Well‐being and employment of young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
The Contribution of Girls’ Longer Hours in Unpaid Work to Gender Gaps in Early Adult Employment
Across many countries, girls perform more unpaid work than boys. This article shows how the time young women and girls spend in unpaid household work contributes to the gender pay gap that is already evident by age 22. The study analyzes employment participation, type of employment, and wages using five waves of the Young Lives longitudinal survey for Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. Spending longer hours in unpaid household work in adolescenc…
School closures and educational attainment in Ethiopia
School closures impact children's attainment adversely, but understanding the effects of closures on children's attainment in lower‐income countries is still limited. Addressing this deficit, this study examines how past school closures have impacted children's educational attainment in Ethiopia. The study uses individual student‐level data from the Young Lives School Survey and standardised test scores in mathematics and language recorded at the…
Health and Well-being of Young People in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
Using data from four waves of the Young Lives longitudinal survey, we follow the lives of 3,064 eight-year-old children over 12 years in four developing countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam) to explore the links between children’s lives and their health and wellbeing in early adulthood. We apply a novel combination of sequence analysis with clustering and difference-in-differences estimation techniques to identify links between health and…
Picking winners
We use data from the Young Lives longitudinal survey to analyse the effect of socioeconomic conditions and gender on the educational performance of young children in India. In particular, we use data for standardised scores on two cognitive tests: the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and a maths test. Our results show that there are significant gender differences in the way that household wealth affects the educational performance of childr…
Can industrial policy foster innovation in renewable energy technologies in the OECD and in EU regions
We cross-fertilise scholarship on industrial policy (IP) and renewable energy (RE) innovation, and submit that RE serves as a general purpose technology that contains more specific RE technologies (RETs). We develop five hypotheses and provide econometric evidence for the impact of demand-pull, technology-push and systemic IP instruments on different RETs. Using a large dataset on RET innovation and policy instruments across 34 OECD countries, we…
The Contribution of Girls’ Longer Hours in Unpaid Work to Gender Gaps in Early Adult Employment
Across many countries, girls perform more unpaid work than boys. This article shows how the time young women and girls spend in unpaid household work contributes to the gender pay gap that is already evident by age 22. The study analyzes employment participation, type of employment, and wages using five waves of the Young Lives longitudinal survey for Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. Spending longer hours in unpaid household work in adolescenc…
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance
We discuss conceptual reasons for and propose public investment in regional infrastructure as a hybrid form of a place-based regional industrial policy aiming to foster the regional economic activity of lagging regions. We present and empirically test a baseline model using data for 14 Indian regions/states over a period of 39 years. Our results show that place-based regional infrastructure investments, particularly in electricity-generating capa…
School closures and educational attainment in Ethiopia
School closures impact children's attainment adversely, but understanding the effects of closures on children's attainment in lower‐income countries is still limited. Addressing this deficit, this study examines how past school closures have impacted children's educational attainment in Ethiopia. The study uses individual student‐level data from the Young Lives School Survey and standardised test scores in mathematics and language recorded at the…
Picking winners
We use data from the Young Lives longitudinal survey to analyse the effect of socioeconomic conditions and gender on the educational performance of young children in India. In particular, we use data for standardised scores on two cognitive tests: the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and a maths test. Our results show that there are significant gender differences in the way that household wealth affects the educational performance of childr…
Can industrial policy foster innovation in renewable energy technologies in the OECD and in EU regions
We cross-fertilise scholarship on industrial policy (IP) and renewable energy (RE) innovation, and submit that RE serves as a general purpose technology that contains more specific RE technologies (RETs). We develop five hypotheses and provide econometric evidence for the impact of demand-pull, technology-push and systemic IP instruments on different RETs. Using a large dataset on RET innovation and policy instruments across 34 OECD countries, we…
Health and Well-being of Young People in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
Using data from four waves of the Young Lives longitudinal survey, we follow the lives of 3,064 eight-year-old children over 12 years in four developing countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam) to explore the links between children’s lives and their health and wellbeing in early adulthood. We apply a novel combination of sequence analysis with clustering and difference-in-differences estimation techniques to identify links between health and…
Picking winners
We use data from the Young Lives longitudinal survey to analyse the effect of socioeconomic conditions and gender on the educational performance of young children in India. In particular, we use data for standardised scores on two cognitive tests: the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and a maths test. Our results show that there are significant gender differences in the way that household wealth affects the educational performance of childr…
Well‐being and employment of young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
The Contribution of Girls’ Longer Hours in Unpaid Work to Gender Gaps in Early Adult Employment
Across many countries, girls perform more unpaid work than boys. This article shows how the time young women and girls spend in unpaid household work contributes to the gender pay gap that is already evident by age 22. The study analyzes employment participation, type of employment, and wages using five waves of the Young Lives longitudinal survey for Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. Spending longer hours in unpaid household work in adolescenc…
School closures and educational attainment in Ethiopia
School closures impact children's attainment adversely, but understanding the effects of closures on children's attainment in lower‐income countries is still limited. Addressing this deficit, this study examines how past school closures have impacted children's educational attainment in Ethiopia. The study uses individual student‐level data from the Young Lives School Survey and standardised test scores in mathematics and language recorded at the…
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance
We discuss conceptual reasons for and propose public investment in regional infrastructure as a hybrid form of a place-based regional industrial policy aiming to foster the regional economic activity of lagging regions. We present and empirically test a baseline model using data for 14 Indian regions/states over a period of 39 years. Our results show that place-based regional infrastructure investments, particularly in electricity-generating capa…
The Impact of Early Marriage on the Life Satisfaction, Education and Subjective Health of Young Women in India
Despite progress in reducing rates of early marriage, it is still a widespread practice in India accounting for 30 per cent of the world’s early marriages. Understanding its impacts is thus of high importance to global gender equality goals. This article examines the impact of early marriage on multi-dimensional aspects of well-being: life satisfaction, subjectively assessed health and educational attainment. Difference-in-differences analysis wi…
Economics (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Educational attainment (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)