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Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...

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Education, Growth and Income Inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; van Rens, Thijs - 2002

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...

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Technology and education: Computers, software, and the internet

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

use in schools, and ii) home use by students. Theoretically, ICT investment and CAI use by schools and the use of …

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Dynamics and stagnation in the Malthusian epoch: Theory and evidence

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2008

income per capita stagnation in the pre-Industrial Revolution era. The theory suggests that improvements in technology during … this period generated only temporary gains in income per capita, eventually leading to a larger but not richer population …

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Does the shadow economy raise observed aggregate efficiency? A cross-country comparison

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich G.; … - 2006

We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects technical efficiency. We find that this only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency. Our results are robust to the functional form of the production technology and the...

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Religion and Income

Bettendorf, L.; Dijkgraaf, E. - 2008

influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First, results based … countries. We estimate simultaneously an income and a religion equation to correct for the endogeneity of religiosity. We find … that estimation outcomes are different between low and high-income countries. Whereas church membership is found to have a …

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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans; Veenman, Justus - 2013

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data...

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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

microdata then allow investigation as to why the more educated remit more. We find the higher income earned by migrants, rather …

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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...

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Joblessness and perceptions about the effectiveness of democracy

Altındağ, Duha; Mocan, H. Naci - 2010

Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...

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