malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …

through which the knowledge acquired by emigrants abroad can flow back to the South and enhance the skills of the remaining …

We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge …

We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among …

We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish … between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a … country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for knowledge goods exhibit a kind of ‘home bias’. In contrast to existing …

occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …

the employer's knowledge (information) regarding the employees' productivity levels on the total time spent by the workers …

-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially … television is their dominant source of information. On a variety of major policy issues (e.g., taxes, social security, health … important. Knowledge about the economy ranks somewhere in between. …