We investigate the impact of home country institutions on the skill level of immigrants to the United States over 1988-1998. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that institutions are multidimensional and that the different dimensions have conflicting impacts on the migration of skilled...

1.Prologue: Why this book? -- 2.Data description and preliminary processing -- 3.Methodological workflow -- 4.Constitutional Changes and Civil War -- 5.Infant Mortality, State Capacity, Rents, and Civil War -- 6.Foreign Aid and Civil Conflict -- 7.Demonstrations, Grievance, and Civil Conflict --...

This book develops a machine-learning framework for predicting economic growth. It can also be considered as a primer for using machine learning (also known as data mining or data analytics) to answer economic questions. While machine learning itself is not a new idea, advances in computing...