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What Makes a Program Good? Evidence from Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs in Five Developing Countries

Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ferreira, María M.; Urzua, Sergio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education expansion, yet their quality varies greatly within and among countries. In this paper we explore the relationship between programs' practices and inputs (quality determinants) and...

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The Economics of Women's Rights

Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or …

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Global Universal Basic Skills : Current Deficits and Implications for World Development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …

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Transformative and Subsistence Entrepreneurs : Origins and Impacts on Economic Growth

Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Pearce, Jeremy; Prato, Marta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper explores the symbiotic relationship between transformative entrepreneurs and inventors, which is crucial for economic growth. We utilize microdata from Denmark to demonstrate that while the relationship between IQ and general entrepreneurship tends to be negative, it is strongly...

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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID

Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...

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Aggregate and Distributional Effects of ‘Free' Secondary Schooling in the Developing World

Fujimoto, Junichi; Lagakos, David; VanVuren, Mitchell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

schooling in the developing world. Our analysis is based on an overlapping-generations model of human capital accumulation in …

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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...

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Financial development and growth in the short and long run

Fisman, Raymond - 2004

"We analyze the relationship between financial development and inter-industry resource allocation in the short- and long-run. We suggest that in the long-run, economies with high rates of financial development will devote relatively more resources to industries with a 'natural' reliance on...

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A quality of growth index for developing countries : a proposal

Mlachila, Montfort; Tapsoba, René; Tapsoba, Sampawende … - 2014

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Population and Welfare : The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number

Adhami, Mohamad; Bils, Mark; Jones, Charles I.; Klenow, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

the world averages more than 6% per year since 1960 as opposed to 2% per year for consumption growth. Countries such as … Mexico and South Africa rise sharply in the growth rankings, whereas China, Germany, and Japan plummet. These results are …

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