We report the labor market effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation intervention at age 31. The study is a … neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica. Implemented in 1987-1989, treatment consisted of a two-year home-based intervention designed to … improve nutrition and the quality of mother-child interactions to foster cognitive, language and psycho-social skills. The …

oil price shocks. We study two Caribbean economies highly vulnerable to oil price shocks, an oil-importer (Jamaica) and an …

for explaining differences in their subsequent economic development. Barbados and Jamaica provide a striking counter … 1960 to 2002, Barbados' GDP per capita grew roughly three times as fast as Jamaica's. Consequently, the income gap between … Barbados and Jamaica is now almost five times larger than at the time of independence. Since their property rights and legal …

wealth Jamaica was the most unequal place in the pre-modern world. Furthermore, all of these characteristics applied to the …

market countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), adding constraints that reflect a central bank's desire to hold a sizable …

offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower …

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil …